From: Mike McNally <m5@vail.tivoli.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 01:48:35 +0800
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: Sun pushing SKIP for intranets and java
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Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> If thats true, its a remarkably bad idea. The IP security layer isn't
> anywhere near the layer where you should be doing things like signing
> Java applets.

I think that the SKIP stuff would be intended to protect on-the-wire
marshalled objects when using the CORBA or RMI stuff to do inter-VM
method invocation.  The signature stuff is a whole 'nuther enchilada.

(I assume, Perry, that you weren't at the fabulous JavaOne thing last
week, because I didn't notice anyone spontaneously combusting from all
the hype :-)

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