Sun pushing SKIP for intranets and java

Sun is pushing SKIP for intranets and encrypting/verifying java applets.
Bay Networks, BBN, Premenos Technology, Milkyway Networks, and VPNet
have signed on.

See http://www.cnet.com/ for more info.  I took a quick look at Sun's site
and didn't see anything.


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Mon, 27 May 1996, Frank Stuart kirjutas:

> Sun is pushing SKIP for intranets and encrypting/verifying java applets.
> Bay Networks, BBN, Premenos Technology, Milkyway Networks, and VPNet
> have signed on.

You can find more about SKIP from http://www.incog.com/ or
http://skip.incog.com/ which are servers for Sun Internet Commerce Group.

Jüri Kaljundi
AS Stallion
jk@stallion.ee

Frank Stuart writes:
> Sun is pushing SKIP for intranets and encrypting/verifying java applets.

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.

.pm

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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