Securing ActiveX.

Andrew Loewenstern andrew_loewenstern at il.us.swissbank.com
Tue Dec 17 09:14:33 PST 1996


Blake Coverett <blake at bcdev.com> writes
>  No, it's not really the accountability that's the issue.  It's
>  the ability to choose before the fact that I 'trust' the
>  software's author.

No, you have it wrong.  It's the ability to choose before the fact that you  
'trust' the _key_ that signed that applet.  The key is everything and it does  
not necessarily have any connection whatsoever to the software's author.  You  
just hope that it does...


andrew






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