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Trail: Security in JDK 1.2
Lesson: Signing Code and Granting It Permissions

Steps for the Code Receiver

Now act as Ray, who receives the signed JAR file and the certificate file from Susan. You will perform the following steps, as shown in the figure.

  1. Observe the Restricted Application

  2. Import the Certificate as a Trusted Certificate, using the keytool -import command, and give it the alias susan.

  3. Set Up a Policy File to Grant the Required Permission to permit classes signed by susan to read the specified file.

  4. See the Policy File Effects, that is, see how the application can now read the file.


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