Re: how to run application(exe) in browser

All a signed control guarantees is that Verisign has said that the organization that
signed the control exists. It has nothing to do with whether or not you can trust the
control. If, for example, I was an industrial spy, I would create a dummy corporation,
that was owned by a stockholder in the Bahamas, who turned out to be an alias for a Swiss
bank, which...but you get the idea.

You have to decide when a signed control comes in if you trust the organization that
signed the control. Generally, unless it is an organization like Microsoft or Adobe (and
not, for example Microsfot or Abode), you are being asked to trust someone you don't know.
joe
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:13:09 -0400, "Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


A solution is to embody most of the work in an ActiveX control. The
control can be hosted
in a browser (for those foolish enough to let unmonitored and unknown code
run on their
machines!) and hosted in a framework that looks like an application.

There is a concept of a signed and secured control, for which you need to
pay some money to Verisign. How trustworthy is that is another question.
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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