Re: JDK 1.1

Marianne Mueller (mrm@doppio)
Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:53:15 -0800

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:53:15 -0800
From: mrm@doppio (Marianne Mueller)
Message-Id: <199702070553.VAA17908@puffin.eng.sun.com>
To: Wmccoubre@aol.com
Subject: Re: JDK 1.1

Verification is implemented in the JDK 1.1 appletviewer, certainly!

There is no announced date for when such support might be integrated
into the Netscape or Microsoft browsers. I suggest you contact those
vendors if you'd like them to support the Java signatures as in JDK 1.1.
(Support is forthcoming, but customer demand might hasten support!)

I'm not sure which security related classes in JDK 1.1 seem
incomplete - can you be more specific? There is a *lot* of
work yet to do, including but not limited to

x509v3 APIs, certificate management APIs
support for flexible & configurable security policies
key and certificate generation and maintenance tools
policy admin tools
...

It's hard to say if a project is incomplete, or "work in progress" ...
The Java philosophy is to try to deliver staged releases.

Marianne