Selecting a digital certificate
You should consider several factors when deciding which digital certificate to use. You can use your system's default certificate or you can specify another certificate to use.
You want to use your system's default certificate if:
- You do not have any specific security requirements for your Java™ application.
- You do not know what kind of security you need for your Java application.
- Your system's default certificate meets the security requirements for your Java application.
Note: If you decide that you want to use your system's default certificate,
check with your system administrator to make sure that a default system certificate
has been created.
If you do not want to use your system's default certificate, you need to
choose a different certificate to use. You can choose from two types of certificates:
- User certificate that identifies the user of the application.
- System certificate that identifies the system on which the application is running.
You should use a user certificate if:
- your application runs as a client application.
- you want the certificate to identify the user who is working with the application.
You should use a system certificate if:
- your application runs as a server application.
- you want the certificate to identify on which system the application is running.
Once you know what kind of certificate you need, you can choose from any of the digital certificates in any of the certificate containers that you are able to access.