Authoritative MSFT response on IE encryption/signatures

David Cross is a Windows Program 
Manager.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.security.crypto&p=1&tid=9db825e3-a115-4311-ad57-68f976204b1b&mid=c4d67db7-9774-4ff5-ab6e-a08a68643e46

 

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 Correct - you need an 
ActiveX control within IE to perform crypto 
operations. CAPICOM is one such 
option. 

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David B. Cross [MS] 
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"Anders 
Rundgren" <> wrote in 
message 
news:... 
> An OASIS TC 
is currently toying with the idea that MSIE can, 
> without adding any 
native extension code, perform XML Signatures and 
> possibly also XML 
Encryption, by an invocation from a web page: 
> 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16304/agsc-tpki-requirements-00.txt 

> 
> To my knowledge this is not the case. You have to use a Java 

> applet, install CAPICOM, or something similar in order to perform 

> signature or encryption operations in the browser environment. 
> 

> Could somebody ON THIS LIST (not off-list) verify (or not) this 
statement? 
> 
> Anders Rundgren 
> 
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