[45604] in Cypherpunks
Re: Java and timing info - second attempt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Weinstein)
Tue Dec 19 01:50:07 1995
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 22:31:14 -0800
From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
To: Jim_Miller@bilbo.suite.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
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
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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.
