Applet signing and related issues -- please help.

[mgart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gart, Mitch)]

Signing is a pain.  It's different for applets in Netscape, or
in IE, or in the Sun Java plug-in.  All three are different.

If you are using the plug-in, you just have to do it once.
If you aren't, you have to sign it one way in a .jar file for
Netscape, and another way in a .cab file for IE.

A good place to start reading is 
http://www.suitable.com/Doc_CodeSigning.shtml  

- Mitch


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reynshteyn, Leonid [mailto:leonid.reynshteyn@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:27 PM
> To: 'advanced-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Applet signing and related issues -- please help.
> 
> 
> The Swing applet I am developing (has to run from the browser)
> includes/invokes classes that need to read some system 
> properties that are
> not allowed to be read under the "sandbox" security model.
> 
> So, I assume I need to sign the applet so it can be granted 
> access to system
> properties/local files.
> 
> If security is really not an issue, what is the easiest way 
> to sign applets?
> Can someone point me to the detailed information on the web 
> that describes
> it? I found information on the Netscape tool, but I am not 
> sure the signed
> applets will run on the Internet Explorer.
> 
> Any help would be really appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> -----------------------------------
> Lenny Reynshteyn
> Goldman, Sachs & Co.
> New York
> 
> 
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