The first time I try to run and install Beacon using Java Web Start, I get scary messages about certificates and strong recommendations against installing the software. What does all this mean?
Web Start does a good job of checking digital signatures on all the libraries, or jar files, it downloads over the Internet and which eventually run on your machine. Like your web browser, it has the ability to verify signatures produced with certificates issued by well-known certificate authorities (CA), such as Thawte or VeriSign. I can’t afford any digital certificates (“cert”) from a well-known CA that would actually support proving that I am who I say I am. And using one of the free “email” certificates that several CAs offer doesn’t really prove a whole lot about whether I am who I say I am, either. So rather than me go through the trouble of acquiring a low-cost cert that doesn’t prove much, puts my personal information in yet another commercial database on the Internet, and which will expire someday anyway, I just produced and signed my own certificate. This self-signed cert is technically and computationally valid but otherwise cannot be verified by Web Start as having been si
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