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Foil 73 How to sign Java Code

From Remarks on Internet and Java Security Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Mehmet Sen
Currently (1999), separate vendors have the following major code-signing tools;
  • Netscape's Object Signing
  • Microsoft's Authenticode
  • Sun's JDK 1.1 Code Signing
  • Sun's Java 2 Code Signing
Though Java is designed to be portable, there are various vendor specific code signing tools that make signed Java code incompatible in others environment. Having various complexity levels , vendor dependencies for leaving sandboxes, giving different control mechanisms to user makes them independent from each other.

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