From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 15:24:31 +0800
To: shamrock@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Calling other code in Java applications and applets
Message-ID: <01I4621DGYDY8Y50HU@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
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From:	IN%"shamrock@netcom.com" 30-APR-1996 08:43:38.24

>Presumably, such packages would have to be signed by Sun. Needless to say,
>these certificates would cost money. A potentially lucrative source of
>revenue for Sun. Nothing wrong with that.

	Nothing wrong with that, no... as long as Sun isn't (as TCMay
speculated indirectly) pressured into not signing such packages if they were
crypto-usable. Does Sun currently do much business with the US Government,
particularly sections (e.g., the military, law enforcement and intelligence
ones) susceptible to being influenced by the NSA?
	-Allen