Message-Id: <199906242114.OAA11515@mail.java.sun.com>
From: "Milind Rao" <milind@ragemail.com>
To: "java-security@java.sun.com" <java-security@java.sun.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:46:24 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Javakey and signed applets
I'm reposting this message, since the previous post seems to have been spammed.
In fact a whole bunch of messages have been spammed.
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Hi,
I'm using Java 1.1.8 preview on OS/2 and am having trouble creating a signed
applet that will read a file on my local machine.
I got the Signed Applet example from sun site and it worked just fine using
navigator 3.0. But it failed while using applet viewer and Communicator 4.0.
I followed the "Using Javakey" web site instructions to sign my jar file. But
it keeps throwing a security exception whenever I try to read the file. It
doesn't work in the applet viewer nor in navigator.
javakey -ld shows
Scope: sun.security.provider.IdentityDatabase, source file:
:\JAVA11\DLL\..\identitydb.obj
duke[identitydb.obj][trusted]
public key initialized
certificates:
certificate 1 for : CN=Duke, OU=JavaSoft, O=Sun MicroSystems, C=US
from : CN=Duke, OU=JavaSoft, O=Sun MicroSystems, C=US
No further information available.
[Signer]milind[identitydb.obj][trusted]
public and private keys initialized
certificates:
certificate 1 for : CN=Milind Rao, OU=Development, O=Software
Information Management, C=US
from : CN=Milind Rao, OU=Development, O=Software
Information Management, C=US
No further information available.
I also created a java.pol security policy file that granted permission to all
applets to read all files.
grant SignedBy "milind" {
permission java.io.FilePermission "*", "read";
};
But the documentation for policy seems to be only for Java 1.2. So I'm not
sure whether this has any effect in 1.1.8 or not.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Regards
Milind