From owner-freebsd-java Fri May 28 7:35:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from vaview5.vavu.vt.edu (vaview5.vavu.vt.edu [198.82.158.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20CB514CAC for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 07:35:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dglynn@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu) Received: from vaview5.vavu.vt.edu (vaview5.vavu.vt.edu [198.82.158.16]) by vaview5.vavu.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA19625; Fri, 28 May 1999 10:35:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dglynn@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 10:35:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Lynn To: Erwan Arzur Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Signing Applets with JDK 1.1.x... In-Reply-To: <374EA951.D5D1862@netvalue.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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