Re: Project Plea!

Marianne Mueller (mrm@doppio)
Tue, 4 Feb 1997 11:24:24 -0800

Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 11:24:24 -0800
From: mrm@doppio (Marianne Mueller)
Message-Id: <199702041924.LAA09622@puffin.eng.sun.com>
To: JEvans@Bluepoint.co.uk
Subject: Re: Project Plea!

Is the information on our web site useful? We have quite a
bit of documentation, and some examples, at http://java.sun.com/security

JDK 1.1 supports digital signatures, which is one application of using
encryption with Java, albeit the exportable one! As you may know,
there are some restrictions on exporting cryptographic software from
the US. The JDK 1.1 release does not have explicit support for encryption
per se. However with digital signatures you get two things:
authentication and integrity. (Encryption on top of that would also
give you confidentiality.)

You might also be interested in the Java Server project, if you are
working on combining Java with distributed servers. Check out
http://java.sun.com/products/java-server

Marianne