108030 - Wrong century reported for digital certificate for Java applet

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[mozilla]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)(Macintosh OS X bug 
reported from a Windows computer)
BuildID:    20011022

The Java applet at http://segal.org/SigningTest2055/index.html is signed using 
Sun's JDK 1.1 javakey signing system and a certificate that expires in 2055.  
The certificate actually works in Netscape/Mozilla for OS 10.1, but the browser 
reports the wrong century if you examine the certificate.   This works 
correctly in Netscape / Mozilla for OS 9.  This does not work using Windows 
browsers because those browsers use different signing systems.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Java is enabled in Netscape 6.2 for OS 10.1 using the beta version 1.0d3 of 
the Mozilla OS X Java Plugin that was obtained from: 
http://homepage.mac.com/pcbeard/MRJPluginCarbon-1.0d3.sit; the MRJPlugin.jar 
and MRJPluginCarbon files were put in the /Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder.  

2.Compile the Java code below or run it at 
http://segal.org/SigningTest2055/index.html

3. When you get the "Java Security Alert" press "More Info" then "Expiration 
Date".


Actual Results:  1955

Expected Results:  2055

Java source code:
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;

public class SigningTest extends Applet {

public void init() {}

public void paint(Graphics g)
{
    try
    {
        String userHome = System.getProperty("user.home");
        g.drawString("Signing worked. The user.home property is: " + userHome, 
10, 30);
    }
    catch (SecurityException e)
    {
    g.drawString("Signing didn't work. The SecurityException is: " + 
e.getMessage(), 10, 10);
    } 
}
} // END OF Class SigningTest

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

This bug was reported against Netscape 6.2 and so must be moved to Bugscape.

Reporter, if you wish to keep this bug in Bugzilla, you must confirm it against
a Mozilla, rather than Netscape build. If you do, reopen this bug.

Comment 2

[Peter Lubczynski]

Wait a sec, this doesn't need to be moved to Bugscape! Patrick is still working
on the OS X Java plugin.

Comment 3

[Patrick C. Beard]

This will certainly happen in Mozilla as well. This is also certainly an Apple
Java VM bug. It looks like a type of Y2K problem. I know of no workaround.

Comment 4

[Patrick C. Beard]

Marking WONTFIX, rather than INVALID, because it is something we can't work
around, you see Apple's code puts up those dialogs.

Comment 5

[mozilla]

I reported this to Apple but they claim this is a browser bug 
(http://segal.org/SigningTest2055/index.html).  However, since this occurs in 
both Internet Explorer and Netscape/Mozilla I agree this looks like an Apple 
problem.  I added to the bug report to Apple this argument for this being an 
Apple bug.

Comment 6

[Barry Langdon-Lassagne]

I get 1955 if I run the test case using the JDK1.3.1_02 Java Plug-in in 
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 on Windows2000. This is not a Macintosh Java 
issue - this is a Sun Java issue.

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> default assignee for old netscape assigned bugs.

Comment 8

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Mass-closing bugs in the "OJI" component: OJI plugin integration was replaced with npruntime long ago, and these bugs appear to be irrelevant now. If there is in fact a real bug that remains, please file it new in the "Core" product, component "Plug-ins".