Can Applet get private key?

[Dwayne Nelson]

I didn't see the message you were replying to, but it looks like I'm having some
of the same difficulties you have overcome. I'm am trying to use a test
certificate for signing applets to test on my own machine. I want the applet to
use the 1.3 plug-in and it does now that I use the HTML converter. Now that I'm
using the plug-in, however, I need to somehow install a test certificate there
too (since it can't used the one I installed in my netscape directory). Almost
all the information I find on certificates assumes the certificate was signed by
a certificate authority ... but this is just test code. How were you able to
solve this probem?

-Dwayne

Brett wrote:

> Thanks for the help on the signing applet problem. I was able to generate a
> key/cert using keytool, sign an applet with jarsigner, and run it OK on my
> machine. When I moved the .jar, .class, and .html files to a server and
> tried to run the applet from a client machine I got another security
> exception. Any steps I need to take to run the applet from a remote server?
>
> Also, now that I can do file access with an applet, is it possible to gain
> access to a private key to allow a user to digitally sign using my applet?
> I'd like to make my applet capable of signing a document but I realize I'll
> need to get to the private key in order to allow that to happen.
>
> Thanks a ton for the help,
>
> Brett