# Signed applets and vendor browsers.

Dirk Bittinger (fbitting@us.ibm.com)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:24:46 -0500

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    From: Dirk Bittinger <fbitting@us.ibm.com>

    To: <java-security@web1.javasoft.com>

    Subject: Signed applets and vendor browsers.

    Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:24:46 -0500

Have any browser vendors committed to direct support of the Java security model
AND classes for signed applets? Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator
currently provide proprietary support that subverts the "write once run
anywhere" foundation of Java with respect to browser environments. Now there
is an enhanced security model for JDK 1.2. Do you know if Netscape
Communicator, Internet Explorer, Lotus Personal Web Navigator, and Hotjava
intend to provide direct support for the JDK 1.2 security specification for
signed applets. We have customer requirements for our product that can only be
realized if workstation files and commands can be readily and securely accessed
via an applet running in any Web browser.

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