Using a certificate from a trusted authority

IBM Toolbox for Java ships a keyring file that supports server certificates from a set of trusted authorities, represented by the following companies:

The keyring file already supports certificates that you get from one of these trusted authorities. All you need to do is get the zip files that contain the encryption algorithms and add it to your CLASSPATH statement.

To use the certificate, complete the following steps:

  1. Select the directory where you want to put the zip files.
  2. Download the version of SSL that you want to use by copying the zip files into the selected directory:
  3. Add the zip file to your CLASSPATH statement.