Re: signed applets

Charlie Lai (Charlie.Lai@Eng)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:26:38 -0800 (PST)

From: Charlie.Lai@Eng (Charlie Lai)
Message-Id: <199711142026.MAA13042@angeles.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: signed applets
To: ramadan@augustus-230.cs.umn.edu (Hany E. Ramadan)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:26:38 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.971113143135.23657A-100000@peca.cs.umn.edu> from "Hany E. Ramadan" at Nov 13, 97 02:33:05 pm

> I created an applet that needs to have extra privileges (i.e. connect to
> a 3rd host). So I put the applet in a jar file and signed it using
> javakey (on Solaris).
> Using Netscape 4.03 (with the java 1.1 patch) it's not working.
> I.E. Navigator can't recognize the signature type ?
> Is there a solution to this?

netscape doesn't support the same crypto algorithms that exist
in the JDK. to sign objects in netscape:

http://developer.netscape.com/software/signedobj/index.html

thanks,
charlie