Sun pushing SKIP for intranets and java
Sun is pushing SKIP for intranets and encrypting/verifying java applets. Bay Networks, BBN, Premenos Technology, Milkyway Networks, and VPNet have signed on. See http://www.cnet.com/ for more info. I took a quick look at Sun's site and didn't see anything. | (Douglas) Hofstadter's Law: | It always takes longer than you expect, even Frank Stuart | when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Mon, 27 May 1996, Frank Stuart kirjutas:
Sun is pushing SKIP for intranets and encrypting/verifying java applets. Bay Networks, BBN, Premenos Technology, Milkyway Networks, and VPNet have signed on.
You can find more about SKIP from http://www.incog.com/ or http://skip.incog.com/ which are servers for Sun Internet Commerce Group. Jüri Kaljundi AS Stallion jk@stallion.ee
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
If thats true, its a remarkably bad idea. The IP security layer isn't anywhere near the layer where you should be doing things like signing Java applets.
I think that the SKIP stuff would be intended to protect on-the-wire marshalled objects when using the CORBA or RMI stuff to do inter-VM method invocation. The signature stuff is a whole 'nuther enchilada. (I assume, Perry, that you weren't at the fabulous JavaOne thing last week, because I didn't notice anyone spontaneously combusting from all the hype :-) ______c_____________________________________________________________________ Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * pain is inevitable m5@tivoli.com * m101@io.com * <URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * suffering is optional
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