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
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.
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
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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