These are the required steps in summary to sign MIDlets with a certificate.

1. Generate public/private key pairs.
2. Generate Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and submit it to CA .
3. Sign the MIDLet with the certificate.

Here are the list of software required to accomplish the steps:

1. Sun Java 2 SDK or JRE
2. Sun Wireless Tool Kit (WTK)

Generate public/private key pairs

Create a Keystore

From the command line navigate to Java 2 SDK bin directory (if it is not in the PATH yet) and type the below command :

keytool -genkey -keyalg rsa -keystore <keystore_filename> -alias <alias_name>

It prompts you to enter a password for your keystore, your name, organization, and address. For example:

C:\tmp>keytool -genkey -keyalg rsa -keystore vitraining.keystore -alias vitraining
Enter keystore password:  1234567890
What is your first and last name?
  [Unknown]:  akhmad daniel
What is the name of your organizational unit?
  [Unknown]:  vitraining
What is the name of your organization?
  [Unknown]:  vitraining
What is the name of your City or Locality?
  [Unknown]:  bandung
What is the name of your State or Province?
  [Unknown]:  jawa barat
What is the two-letter country code for this unit?
  [Unknown]:  ID
Is CN=akhmad daniel, OU=vitraining, O=vitraining, L=bandung, ST=jawa barat, C=ID
correct?
  [no]:  yes

Enter key password for <vitraining>
        (RETURN if same as keystore password):

You will find the keystore file on the directory called vitraining.keystore.

List the generated keypairs

To see your generated keypairs entry, type the below command :

keytool -keystore <keystore_filename> –list

For example:

C:\tmp>keytool -keystore vitraining.keystore -list
Enter keystore password:  1234567890

Keystore type: jks
Keystore provider: SUN

Your keystore contains 1 entry

vitraining, Dec 14, 2009, keyEntry,
Certificate fingerprint (MD5): CA:EE:0C:D6:64:4D:C3:A3:B9:92:9B:14:58:E0:A1:76

Generate Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and submit it to CA

Next, you need to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for the enrollment process.

Generate CSR

Type the below command to create a CSR for the key pair in the keystore:

keytool –certreq –file <certreq_filename.csr> –keystore <keystore_filename> -alias <alias_name>

For example:

C:\tmp>keytool -certreq -file vitraining.csr -keystore vitraining.keystore -alias vitraining
Enter keystore password:  1234567890

You will find a new CSR file in the directory called vitraining.csr. Submit the generated CSR to CA.

Sign the MIDLet with the certificate

Once the CA has approved your request, you will receive the certificate, usually by email containing the certificate. You need to copy paste or save the attachment of the certificate file to a file. The next steps are:

Import the certificate to your keystore

Use the below command

keytool –import –trustcacerts –keystore <keystore_filename> -alias <alias_name> -file <cert_filename>

For example:

C:\tmp>keytool -import -trustcacerts -keystore vitraining.keystore -alias vitraining -file vitraining.cert
Enter keystore password:  1234567890
Certificate reply was installed in keystore

Now the keystore is filled up with the valid certificate.

Sign the JAD file

Use JadTool utility to sign a JAR file by adding both of the certificate and the JAR file’s digital signature to the Java Application Descriptor (JAD) file, the process will be :

a. Adding the certificate to JAD

To add the certificate as the value of an attribute named MIDlet-Certificate-m-n, we will use JadTool.jar. Here m is the number of the certificate chain, and n is an integer that, for new certificates, begins at one and increments by one each time you add a new certificate to the JAD file.

java -jar %WTK_HOME%\bin\JadTool.jar -addcert -keystore <keystorename> -alias <aliasname> -storepass <password> -inputjad <input_jadfile> -outputjad <output_jadfile>

For example:

java -jar %WTK_HOME%\bin\JadTool.jar -addcert -keystore vitraining.keystore -alias vitraining -storepass 1234567890 -inputjad test.jad -outputjad test_t.jad

When succeeded, you should see the below attributes added to your output JAD file (in the example test_t.jad):

MIDlet-Certificate-1-1

MIDlet-Certificate-1-2

MIDlet-Certificate-1-3

b. Adding JAR’s digital signature to the JAD

This last process will get the JAR’s digital signature, stores it as the value of the MIDlet-Jar-RSA-SHA1 attribute of the output JAD file.

java -jar %WTK_HOME%\bin\jadtool.jar -addjarsig -jarfile <jar_file> -keystore <keystorename> -alias <aliasname> -storepass <password> -keypass <password> -inputjad <input_jadfile> -outputjad <output_jadfile>

The default value for -jarfile is the MIDlet-Jar-URL property in the JAD file. For example:

java -jar %WTK_HOME%\bin\jadtool.jar -addjarsig -jarfile test.jar -keystore vitraining.keystore -alias vitraining -storepass 1234567890 -keypass 1234567890 -inputjad test.jad –outputjad test_t.jad

Conclusion

Here is to conclude:

1. keystore file is the file you created for storing public and private key pairs
2. csr file is the file you created for submission to get a valid certificate from CA
3. after getting the certificate, save it to a file, and the store it to back your keystore file
4. the keystore file is ready for use for signing JAR and JAD files