SSL, Certificate

Question

i am new to Security. i want a good book that teach me how to create and use certificate , and log in using HTTPS. using jsp/servlet tech.

Answer 1

The Keytool that comes bundled with the JDK is a good tool to create self-signed certificates. If your server is Tomcat, here is the link to create and use the certificates http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/ssl-howto.html

Answer 2

I'll suggest you first read some articles about security at all — how it works, what are the certificates and private/public keys, i.e. not relative to Java.

Articles for beginners — brief introduction to this stuff:
— Certificates & keys;
— Sun's tutorial of how to generate the keys;
— and ready-to-use examples on Java.

Books:
— Inside Java 2 platform security;
— Enterprise Java security: building secure J2EE applications.