Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 10:35:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Lynn <dglynn@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu> To: Erwan Arzur <erwan@netvalue.fr> Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Signing Applets with JDK 1.1.x... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990528103507.19615B-100000@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <374EA951.D5D1862@netvalue.fr>
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So what might be the solution? > Greg Lynn wrote: > > > I read from http://www.javasoft.com/security/signExample/index.html > > that signing and verification is NOT supported by the standard browsers > > Netscape and MSE... is this true?? I'm currently using JDK 1.1.6 > > so I guess this means no signing? > > > > You're right. Netscape, IE and SUN use different APIs to access the > Security managers, and also do not share the same security model, so you > have to develop multiple times for each browsers involved ... this is a > shame, but at least for Netscape, you have to take in account that most of > Communicator's java code was developped back when java's security APIs was > really crude and did not take in account specific browsers needs ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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