Re: Digital Signature for MIDlet?

I see ur point there, however since the client is quite concern over
data security issue, i'm not sure whether that could be an option. Have
to see my boss :p.

Anyway, thanx for the comment. Am open to all feedbacks and opinions here.

FooShyn

Kirwan Lyster wrote:
> My experience is that the signing situation is a real minefield. For the
> benefits gained (potentially fewer permission alerts, fewer warnings on
> installation and in some cases access to protected APIs) the downside is
> that the installation success rate is likely to nosedive.
>
> It does seem from my tests that the Verisign certificate is the most
> commonly supported, but even that is not sufficiently common in my view
> to make it feasible, with the possible exception of if you're targeting
> a particular, small sets of handsets on a particular network in a
> particular country.
>
> Saying that the target is just MIDP 2.0 phones suggests to me that
> you're looking at a much broader success than that though and I'm afraid
> I would suggest you convince your client against signing. If not I would
> suggest careful targeting so that you send signed MIDlets only to phones
> which your own testing shows will accept them.
>
> Sorry if that sounds negative. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Kirwan
>
>
> foo shyn wrote:
>> The application is targeted at MIDP 2.0 platform phone. We need it to be
>> signed as well as connect to WAP through SSL connection because of
>> client's request.
>>
>> Thanx
>> FooShyn
>>
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> What is the purpose of signing your application? If you need to run
>>> in a particular protection domain you need to check first that the
>>> devices you are planning to deploy to actually support that
>>> protection domain with a Verisign certificate.
>>>
>>> -- Terrence
>>> [Message sent by forum member 'terrencebarr' (terrencebarr)]
>>>
>>> http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=227943
>>
>>
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