Hi -

I'm a security newbie, and I'm trying to find a solution to this
problem:

I have an applet that signs X data, but in order for that to occur I
need at the passwords to the keystore and
the private key used to sign.

Before this applet is run, a 2-way SSL session will have been
established.  The client will authenticate with certificate
authentication - which requires yet another password to unlock the
private key.  I'm assuming this process is controlled
by the browser and will not be able to intercept with some code to cache
the key or password somehow.

Now - assuming that the client will use the same password for client
authentication, for signing the data (password to unlock the private
key), is it possible to circumvent the re-prompting of passwords by
accessing the relevant data (i.e., the password or private key) to sign
the data?

Thanks in advance,

Allen

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