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Foil 75 Netscape Object Signing Tool -2

From Remarks on Internet and Java Security Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Mehmet Sen
Some useful options of signtool is illustrated as following;
  • signtool -d"path to certificates" -l list available certificates in your database
  • signtool -d"<path to certificate>" -v myjar.jar Check validity of signature on jar file whether it is tampered or not.
  • signtool -d"<path to certificate>" -w myjar.jar Check who signed myjar.jar
Adding Capabilities to Signed Classes: The Netscape Capabilities library provides a class called the Privilege Manager which turns on-off privileges for incoming program requests.

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