I am looking for a utility class that can generate random certificate strings for testing purposes. Any idea if there is one already implemented?
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I am looking for a utility class that can generate random certificate strings for testing purposes. Any idea if there is one already implemented?
The built-in Java X500 libraries are geared more towards using certificates than generating and parsing certificates. You might find a way to do what you want, but it would almost certainly be messy and in a protected API (
sun.security.*).I suggest you include the Bouncy Castle library (Apache License). It has a class called
X509V3CertificateGeneratorthat you can use to set the fields of a certificate (issuer, subject, expiry date, etc).You should then be able to get the PEM string from it using the
PEMWriterclass.