JSECURITY Issue: Signed Applets

Jan Luehe (sraza@ic.sunysb.edu)
Wed, 7 Apr 1999 01:00:09 GMT

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 01:00:09 GMT
Message-Id: <199904070100.BAA24757@web1.java.sun.com>
From: <sraza@ic.sunysb.edu>
To: java-security@java.sun.com, webmaster@java.sun.com,
Subject: JSECURITY Issue: Signed Applets

Name: Sajid Raza
Email: sraza@ic.sunysb.edu
Organization: SUNY Stony Brook
Phone Number: 203 952 5486
Location: North America
System: WinNT
Referring URL: http://java.sun.com/security/
Browser: InternetExplorer
Browser Version: 4.0

Dear Sir,

The current situation with Java Security makes it very difficult for a developer to actually deploy functional applets. How can we possibly expect the average user to open up a command prompt and actually type in cryptic commands with arcane arguments to import certificates and the like. Please, in the next JDK revision please try to make the Security extensions workable such that developers have an incentive to develop directly for the plug-in, rather than force them to write two versions of their work: one for IE and the other for Navigator.

Thanks,

Sajid Raza