# Trusted Applet Question

Basil B. (basilb@hotmail.com)
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:39:03 PST

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    From: "Basil B." <basilb@hotmail.com>

    To: java-security@web4.javasoft.com

    Subject: Trusted Applet Question

    Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:39:03 PST

Hello:

This is the only email address I could find on the JavaSoft site that
seemed to possibly accept a security question. If there is someone else
I should be writing, please forward this question to them.

My question is:

If I create a signed applet, and a certificate that can be reliably
acquired by a user of my applet, how do they identify me to their
browser's virtual machine? Everything in the documentation implies that
to use a signed applet, one must use javakey to add the certificate to
the identity database. However, if someone is simply a web user, and
doesn't have the jdk, they don't have javakey. So how does the "general
public" get to trust and use my applet?

Thanks for your help

Basil Burgess
Personal: basilb@hotmail.com
Business: basilb@ca.ibm.com

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