# Regarding signed applet

NM Phase 2.0 (nmp@dsq4.squared.co.in)
Thu, 06 Nov 1997 00:27:46 +0000

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    Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 00:27:46 +0000

    From: "NM Phase 2.0" <nmp@dsq4.squared.co.in>

    To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com

    Subject: Regarding signed applet

Dear Java Team

We created a certificate file from verisign (.p12) format. We created a
key in local database with javakey. Created a jar and signed the
applet using "javakey -gs sign_directive(file) jarfilename. Everything
is fine. It is working fine in appletviewer and we are able to access
the local disk without any problem. But the same thing if we start
the applet from Netscape communicator 4.02 we are getting an exception
io.exception in jar file "bad zip file format". The same error came in
appletviewer when we did not use the jar -0 ( which is for not
compressing the file, save as is ). But i created the jar file without
compression. Even then it is giving the same exception.

Please give us a solution for this. We have taken the certificate
belong to tag as the signer is it correct? Give us details how to find
the signer from a certificate, because when we created the certificate
there was no option for signer name, there was only First name, Last
name, public key.

We also want some information regarding public key and private key.

Kindly give these details or give us the sight where we can find these
details. We searched the web it gives the same sunsoft example for
signed applets. No where it exactly specifies for Netscape.

With regards
S. K. SUBRAMANIAN.

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