I really want digital signing feature on firefox as native without plugin.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Sunny <infinity...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Anders. > This was really helpful. Going down i see applets as the only > solution if browser compatibility is to be taken seriously. I'm just > looking for signature plug-in and have no time to write an applet > using java pkcs apis. > Openoces looks promising but any idea of the level of support they > provide for issues in the api/code? > > On Apr 7, 11:45 am, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundg...@telia.com> wrote: > > Hi Sunny, > > I haven't heard about Message Pro. > > > > Here is an open source (free) applet plugin: > > > > http://www.openoces.org/index.html > > > > It is used in Denmark and maybe somewhere else as well. > > > > In Sweden the government has spent some $30M over the years on: > > > > http://nexussafe.com/en/Products/Nexus-Personal > > > > IMO, both solutions are inferior but since they are actually used > > it doesn't really matter :-) > > > > It interesting to note that many signature plugins come with an > > authentication plugin which unifies the PKI GUI which using TLS > > is quite terrible. > > > > Some crypto people think that replacing TLS-client-cert-auth with > > an application-level authentication mechanism is a bad thing but there > > are tons with drawbacks using TLS-client-cert-auth and there is no > > hope for improvements and the alternatives are already in place. > > Even USPTO have selected an Java applet for PKI login... > > > > Anders > > > > Sunny wrote: > > > Hi Anders, > > > Thanks for your mail. Is there any proprietary solution that's > > > named Message Pro or so?? > > > > > On Apr 6, 5:26 pm, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundg...@telia.com> wrote: > > >> Hi, > > > > >> Since there are no standards in this space most banks and > e-governments > > >> use proprietary (but cross-browser) Java plugins. In the EU there are > at > > >> least 10 different national schemes. > > > > >> Chrome and Safari presumably do not support any pre-configured > solution > > >> since no such solution has gotten any traction worth mentioning. > > > > >> There is a lot of stuff you can buy though... > > > > >> Anders > > > > >> Sunny wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> I'm not able to find any literature on the topic of Signing data > > >>> using Digital Certificates with JS in Safari browser. > > >>> like, in Firefox, we have window.crypto.signtext() method that you > can > > >>> call from Java script to select a certificate and sign the data using > > >>> the certificate. > > >>> For IE, we have a CAPICOM plug-in to do that. > > >>> Do we have anything in chrome/safari that will help signing using > > >>> Digital Certificates in java script? Please let me know. > > -- > dev-tech-crypto mailing list > dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto > -- Mountie Lee Tel : +82 2 2140 2700 E-Mail : moun...@paygate.net Twitter : mountielee ======================================= PayGate Inc. * WEB STANDARD PAYMENT * PCI DSS v1.2 COMPLIANT * www.paygate.net * payg...@paygate.net
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