Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 11 March 99

Foil 16 Signed Scripts (cont'd)

From Overview of JavaScript II -- From Cookies to Dynamical HTML CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox (Tom Scavo)
Object-Signing Tools
1 Scripts are signed using Netscape's Signing Tool (signtool), a command-line utility that creates digital signatures for Java class files, JavaScript scripts, plugins, etc.
2 Scripts may be served from a secure (SSL) server, in which case they're treated as if signed with the public key of that server
3 Users retain the right to deny the privileges requested by the signed script
  • As in Java, you are asked whether to allow a given type of operation with an option to "remember this decision"
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