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CERTivity KeyStores Manager - GUI for KeyStore Management

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CERTivity 1.1, the latest version of CERTivity KeyStores Manager has been released recently, and it is available for download from http://www.edulib.com/products/keystores-manager/download/. 

CERTivity® KeyStores Manager, is a pure Java visual IDE for managing different KeyStore types (JKS, JCEKS, PKCS12, BKS, UBER, Windows Native), Keys in different formats, (e. g. PKCS, OpenSSL, using various algorithms), Certificates and Certificates Chains.  CERTivity can perform many activities related to KeyStore management and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) domain; common actions are exporting KeyPairs, Private/Public Keys and Certificates, import SSL certificates from servers, extend validity period for self-signed certificates, testing given certificates on custom protocols, obtain revocation status.
CERTivity also creates and verifies digital signatures on PDF, XML, JAR or CSR files. For PDF signatures it is covering all of the standard SubFilter values “adbe.x509.rsa_sha1”, “adbe.pkcs7.detached” and “adbe.pkcs7.sha1”, as well as providing rich information on signature verification. XML signatures can be applied to XML files, HTML pages, binary-encoded data and any XML-encoded data. CERTivity has the ability to sign and verify JAR files, too, which can be done much easier because of its GUI.
CERTivity is built on top of the NetBeans platform, covering many functionalities otherwise available with disperse command line tools, combining them in an intuitive and productive organization, offering a rich GUI, thus allowing users to maximize productivity.

Although it is not a major version, CERTivity 1.1 contains new important features, updates and bug fixes which improve usability.

Shortly, in CERTivity 1.1 were included the following new features:

- Digitally signing and verifying signatures on Android Application Package (APK) files, making this version of CERTivity compatible with signing tools other than the JDK’s, such as the Android SDK tools. Version 1.1 allows importing certificates into the active KeyStore directly from the signature verification result dialogs;

- Discovering and opening the Java(s) CA KeyStores(s) from the Java Virtual Machines installed on the current system, where there are more JVMs installed (for example when the system has both 32 and 64 bit java versions installed);

- Certificate Extensions management. CERTivity 1.1 can create and add extensions to a certificate when generating a new KeyPair or a CA Reply (after signing a CSR), view the extensions structure at creation time as XML, save the extensions into XML template files and loading them back when creating a new KeyPair;

- Anticipating the transition to secure RSA keys, as Microsoft announces that the use of the RSA keys less than 1024 bits long will be blocked. It allows setting the minimum key size allowed for generating RSA Key Pairs and display warnings when generating key pairs having the size less than the minimum value set;

- Generating a new Key Pair using some of the information from an existing one;

- Retrieving SSL certificates by using (pasting) a HTTPS URL instead of specifying separately the host and port number (option which is still available);

- Better default shortcuts such as the F2 key (usually used by Windows Explorer) for renaming.

Apart from the new features which have been added, CERTivity 1.1 has fixed the issues found in version 1.0, such as focus lost and entry selection issues. Also some corrections and uniformity have been performed for the File Choosers.

CERTivity 1.1 has a Free Trial period to fully evaluate the new features. The new version can be tried for 30 days even in parallel with the previous version.

More details about the new version can be found at http://www.edulib.com/products/keystores-manager/overview/, or at the main website www.edulib.com.

Also you can visit CERTivity’s forum page at http://www.edulib.com/support/forum/certivity/ or check the FAQ page at http://www.edulib.com/support/faq/news/3/en/certivity.html.

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CERTivity KeyStores Manager - GUI for KeyStore Management Adrian Calin <adi.calin.nds@gmail.com> - 2012-10-29 01:52 -0700

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