Security in passing contents of a text field through an applet

[vijayanand.deshpande at tatainfotech.com (Vijayanand Deshpande)]

Hello !!!

I want to send some data through a text field from a browser to the web server without using digital certificates. The options before me are either Java Servlets or java applets.

Sending data through a simple servlet is always out of question since the screen thrown on the browser is always a plain HTML without any encryption. Now second option is an applet. Now can the data being sent through an applet be hacked ??? ( At the most 3 elements are to be passed so applet size is very small and hence the response time is not a concern.). Can the gurus please give their comments or any alternate solution for my problem ?? (No digital certificates to be used but still data should not be hacked). Also help/urls on applet-servlet communication are appreciated.

Regards,

Vijayanand Deshpande
Systems Engineer
Tata Infotech Ltd.
MIDC Bhosari, Pune 411 026
India

Tel : 91 20 712 3501-9 Ext 207
Fax: 91 20 712 9209
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