Bug 37018

Summary: Document how to use tomcat-SSL with a pkcs11 token
Product: Tomcat 5 Reporter: Ralf Hauser <hauser>
Component: Connector:CoyoteAssignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: 5.5.9   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: other   
URL: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/security/p11guide.html

Description Ralf Hauser 2005-10-11 12:44:20 UTC 
Since jdk1.5 has a sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11 implementing
java.security.Provider, it should be possible to no longer store private keys on
the server computer's harddisk, but on a USB token or alike (being willing to
accept that SSL may become very slow...)
Others appear to have asked for this 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=111471470228516&w=2

more also in http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=256018&messageID=3838346
Comment 1 Yoav Shapira 2005-11-23 22:51:11 UTC 
Ralf, I'm not sure how to document this beyond simply pointing to the (good)
URLs you provide...
Comment 2 Ralf Hauser 2006-12-03 22:37:32 UTC 
some aspect of this is dealt with in bug 40677
Comment 3 Mark Thomas 2011-05-20 19:07:34 UTC 
The Sun URL no longer works - it redirects to the home page for the Oracle forums.

Since bug 40677 has been fixed, I don't see much more that can be done here.