# Re: File accesssing

Marianne Mueller (Marianne.Mueller@Eng)
Sun, 9 Aug 1998 08:05:53 -0700 (PDT)

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    Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 08:05:53 -0700 (PDT)

    From: Marianne Mueller <Marianne.Mueller@Eng>

    Subject: Re: File accesssing

    To: java-security@java.Sun.COM, srinivas_praturi@satyam.com

Please refer to http://java.sun.com/security/signExample.

For an applet to access the file system, it needs to be considered a trusted
applet by the JVM.

There are two ways for an applet to be considered trusted:

* it's signed with the digital signature of an identity
marked as "trusted" to the system
* it's installed in a directory on the browser's CLASSPATH
Unfortunately the major browsers (Netscape's, Microsoft's) don't support
the same type of digital signature as is used in the Java JDK. Hopefully
going forward, that interoperability problem will get fixed.

One thing you can do is use the Java Plugin (http://java.sun.com/products/plugin).
This lets you install the current version of the Java VM and libraries into
your browser.

p.s. See also Q&A archive at
http://java.sun.com/security/hypermail/java-security-archive/index.html

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