"Turbo" wrote > I'm looking for soulution for digital signing of web form. > For Netscape 4.x I use crypto.signText in javascript. > > Problem is with Netscape version 6.x and 7.x and Mozilla. > There is no signText implementation.
see mozilla bug 139258. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139258 > As I can see Netscape and Mozilla have all this functions in NSS library > and there is JSS which use NSS for crypto operation. To be able to use JSS from Java applet you have to: install nss, jss on the user machine first. > Is there any way to make Java applet using JSS which could access to > running netcape/mozilla keystore and use user's private key to sign some > data supplied by javascript and return signed data to javascript ? > You can create a signed applet and you will be able to use the mozilla keystore and user's private key to sign data. I haven't checked if it is possible to communicate from javascript to java and vice versa. > I found out that CryptoManager must be initialized with path to > configDir but is there any way for applet to get all data from running > netscape without accessing filesystem ? You can get configDir by using javascript functions and pass it to the applet. > Is there any chance that sometime in future new version of netscape/mozilla > will have crypto.signText implemented ? It is on a list of things to be done but it has low priority. Regards, Mark
