# Re: Signed Applet

Marianne Mueller (mrm@Eng)
Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:16:13 -0700

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    Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:16:13 -0700

    Message-Id: <199707311816.LAA02583@puffin.eng.sun.com>

    From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@Eng>

    To: huffmire@epal.com

    Subject: Re: Signed Applet

Unfortunately the JDK 1.1 signing is not supported in the currently
shipping browsers from Netscape.

We're working with licensees to resolve this interoperability
problem.

Note that the JDK 1.1 certificates are X509v1 certificates for DSA,
and as such, they are probably different from the type of certificates
that Netscape parses. However, the next release of the JDK has
X509v3 support, and hopefully it will be a straightforward matter for
the Java-enabled browsers to use the JDK certificate APIs to import
and parse the JDK signing certificates.

Send email to the browser vendors if you'd like them to support the
Java signature format and APIs!

Marianne

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