We have a similar problem at Imperial College in our finance division. On line access to the accounting system is via a Java applet! At the moment, this is self-signed, and so they have the same problem as Jmol has. One presumes that anything to do with finance will have to be carefully scrutinised by lawyers, accountants, auditors.
The appropriate authorities here have promised to keep me in the loop. Meanwhile, they gave me this page to look at http://www.sslshopper.com/cheap-code-signing-certificates.html The four companies there all support Java code signing. The cheapest price for two years is $360. More importantly, all four are supported as “recognised” by the major OS, and their browsers. I would note that I first got a code signing certificate around 1998 from Globalsign, so they have been around a long time. Regarding who signs the certificate, my person here told me it is similar to eg registering a domain name. An individual presents themselves as the “administrator” of the domain, but that does not necessarily mean that they are legally responsible for that domain. I gather it is rather similar for code signing. Thus the Financial Java applet at Imperial will bear the name of the prime administrative contact, without implying that this person is directly and legally responsible for all the financial transactions conducted using the applet. I am more optimistic now that something sensible can be done quite quickly.
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