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Foil 77 Signing Java Applets with Microsoft's Authenticode

From Remarks on Internet and Java Security Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Mehmet Sen


Get an Authenticode Certificate, e.g., from digitalid.verisign.com/developer/ms_pick.htm.
Get Microsoft Java SDK, from www.microsoft.com/msdownload/java/sdk/31f/SDK-JAVA.asp
Prepare archive file , in Microsoft's CAB format, cabarc N test.cab *.class
Use Microsoft Security Zones concept. By default, a security zone, assigned a security level, is a group of Web sites. The available levels are Low, Medium, High, Custom.
signcode -j JavaSign.dll -jp High -spc c:\myCert.spc -v a:\myKey.pvk -n "My Applet Software" -i http://www.mywebpage.com/ myapp.cab where -j is to sign java code, -jp to pass parameter to JavaSign.dll, zone level, -i information page for the software that user can check.



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