Install Guide

2 About the Cert-J Toolkit
RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Installation Guide
About the Cert-J Toolkit
Cert-J is a certificate-handling software development kit for creating Java™
applications that integrate into a public key infrastructure using the proprietary Cert-J
API.
The Cert-J distribution media contains the following:
• Binary toolkit
– Toolkit Java archive (jar) files
– CodeBase shared libraries
– OpenLDAP library
– RSA BSAFE Crypto-C Micro Edition 4.1 (Crypto-C ME) shared libraries
– Sample source code.
• Source toolkit
– Java source code and build and test systems
– Crypto-C ME shared libraries
– Sample source code.
• The RSA BSAFE Crypto-J 6.2.4.0.1 (Crypto-J) binary toolkit, which includes the
FIPS validated Crypto-J 6.2.4 module. Crypto-J provides Java implementations of
all the required cryptographic operations.
• Product documentation, consisting of:
– This document, the RSA BSAFE Cert-J Installation Guide, in Portable
Document Format (PDF), with instructions on how to install and build Cert-J.
– RSA BSAFE Cert-J Release Notes, in PDF, with the latest information on
Cert-J.
– RSA BSAFE Cert-J Security Policy, in PDF, which describes how Cert-J uses
the RSA BSAFE JSAFE and JCE Software Module, and how to operate
Cert-J in a manner consistent with the requirements of the cryptographic
module.
– RSA BSAFE Cert-J Third Party Licenses, in PDF, with license information for
third-party products included with Cert-J.
– RSA BSAFE Cert-J Troubleshooting Guide, in PDF, with information and
instructions for troubleshooting common issues with Cert-J.
– RSA BSAFE Cert-J Developers Guide, in HTML format, with information
and instructions on how to develop applications that integrate Cert-J.
– RSA BSAFE Cert-J to Crypto-J Migration Guide, in HTML, which compares
the Cert-J toolkit and the RSA BSAFE Crypto-J 6.2.4 or newer (Crypto-J)
toolkit, to assist with the changes required to migrate applications between
Cert-J 6.x and Crypto-J.