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Re: Java and timing info - second attempt

To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Java and timing info - second attempt
From: Jeff Weinstein <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 22:31:14 -0800
Cc: [email protected]
Organization: Netscape Communications Corporation
References: <[email protected]>
Sender: [email protected]

Jim Miller wrote:
> Would it be possible to create a Java applet that causes the client
> machine to sign or encrypt something with their private key, and then send
> back timing info?
> 
> For the answer to be YES a few things need to be true.  There needs to be
> some sort of standard crypto API in use that can be accessed by a Java
> script, and Java scripts need to be able to capture and send back timing
> info.  Does anyone on this list know enough about Java to know if it can
> do any of these things?

  In Netscape Navigator 2.0 Java and JavaScript do not have access
to crypto routines.  At some point in the future this will probably
change, but only after we understand the implications much better
than we do today.

	--Jeff

-- 
Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
[email protected] - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.

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