The use of electronic signatures in web environments has historically been based on the use of java applets, given the need to access the different certificate stores that browsers and operating systems use and, where appropriate, make use of. of keys often hosted on cryptographic devices.
Although the use of this type of software from different types of browsers and operating systems has never been easy, over the last two years the evolution of the technology used by browsers when developing client tools , increasingly based on javascript, as well as the growing security requirements that the java virtual machine has when working with digital certificates, has made it very difficult to use this technology. This trend reached the point of unsustainability on April 16, 2015, with the default disabling java virtual machine in Google Chrome browser and the announcement of the impossibility of its execution from this browser from the month of September.
The AOC Consortium has prepared the following document that describes both the problem and the different solutions contemplated, as well as a proposal for its application: Report on alternatives to the use of signature applets
