Sun pushing SKIP for intranets and java
Mike McNally
m5 at vail.tivoli.com
Mon Jun 3 10:48:35 PDT 1996
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 :-)
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