crypto/web impementation tradeoffs

Ian Brown I.Brown at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Thu Jul 4 11:32:59 EDT 2002


> Is it better to have the key encoded in the binary, or to pass it a
> plain text key as one of the parameters to the applet?

Have the applet downloaded over an SSL connection along with a random key as
a parameter. Both will be protected using SSL, and then the applet can use
the key to communicate securely back to you.


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