# Re: Client-side security

Li Gong (gong@games.eng.sun.com)
Tue, 19 May 1998 11:25:47 -0700

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    Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:25:47 -0700

    Message-Id: <199805191825.LAA22741@games.eng.sun.com>

    From: Li Gong <gong@games.eng.sun.com>

    To: oothoudt@lanl.gov (Mike Oothoudt)

    Subject: Re: Client-side security

    In-Reply-To: Mike Oothoudt's mail of Tue, 19 May, 1998

JDK 1.2 allows you to point to a remote place for such things, so in
your intranet situation, you do not have to hand copy those things
around.

Li

Mike Oothoudt writes:
> The "JDK 1.1.x -Signed Applet Example" Step 3 requires operations on each
> and every client machine that needs to access the signed applet. The
> instructions appear to require the client to copy the certificate to the
> local machine and run javakey. How is the typical PC user supposed to get
> a copy of the certificate? a copy of javakey? Is there a simple way to
> acomplish this distribution?
>
>
> In my case I have 8 Sun/Solaris 2.5.1 systems, about 50 PCs and about 50
> Macs as clients inside a company firewall. In addition there are 100-200
> other PCs/Macs inside the company firewall will want occasional access to
> my applets. Manual installation by me is impractical. The owners of the
> client machines are the administrators and their computer expertise ranges
> from nill (managers, low level technicians) to Solaris/PC/Mac system
> administrators/programmers. The distribution must either be automatic or a
> few simple steps that anyone can execute.
>
> A solution using Java Plug-In is ok--I am willing to have the Macs wait for
> Apple to get it implemented.
>

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