<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by EPS:
There has definitely been a change for the worse: the new applet is requesting "full permissions" (i.e. bypass all Java security mechanisms). No way am I going to grant that!</font>
DigiChat thinks that may be the verification message about trusting the signed certificate from them, which they recommend you do. I'm working on getting an unsigned version from them, which shouldn't require any action from you...