Basic HTML version of Foils prepared April 7 1998

Foil 117 Signed Script Policy-2

From Basic Principles of Java and Internet Security CPS616 Web Technologies -- Spring 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Netscape's Page Signer tool provides signing of scripts. Page Signer associates a digital signature with the scripts on an HTML page.
A single HTML page can have scripts signed by different principals
The digital signature is placed in a Java Archive (JAR) file.
JAR files may include the JavaScript source if one sign a JavaScript file with Page Signer.
  • ( If you sign an inline script, event handler, or JavaScript entity, Page Signer stores only the signature and the identifier for the script in the JAR file. If you sign a JavaScript file with Page Signer, it stores the source in the JAR file as well.)

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