Re: Re-reading certificates at runtime - Java

2008-09-17 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
David B Hinz wrote, On 2008-09-11 09:13: We are still encountering the problem detailed below that was described by Steve over a year ago. Is there anyone that can provide some insight on how we can solve this problem? What happens is that some of our applications must run 24x7 yet the

Re: About the Cybertrust Educational CA certificate

2008-09-17 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 09/17/2008 09:01 PM, Nelson Bolyard: I wouldn't call it a known issue with Mozilla based products. It's a requirement of the SSL/TLS specifications. That's correct. It's an issue with servers that are not configured to conform to those specifications. Right, but as I mentioned elsewhere,

Re: About the Cybertrust Educational CA certificate

2008-09-17 Thread Fabio Spelta
Yes, that's the right solution. It was, indeed. Testing it with other browser worked flawlessly, thus the misunderstanding. Thank you very much, -- Fabio ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org

Re: How to encript raw data

2008-09-17 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Francisco Puentes wrote, On 2008-09-17 14:27: Yes, I know. Precisely I need RSA to encrypt a buffer to exchange sessions keys (very small xml document), which will be used to encrypt the session with AES. So :-) Can NSS encrypt raw data? With RSA? NSS was designed around the FIPS 140

Re: About the Cybertrust Educational CA certificate

2008-09-17 Thread Kyle Hamilton
Perhaps, Eddy, StartCom's roots were only approved for SSL Certificate Authority. Did you not include a request for Email or Software Development bits? -Kyle H On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Eddy Nigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/17/2008 09:01 PM, Nelson Bolyard: I wouldn't call it a

Re: About the Cybertrust Educational CA certificate

2008-09-17 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Eddy Nigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been banging my head against a wall here because of this FUD and about misinformation which is absolutely incorrect. Sad, because there are many FF users running into it. And it doesn't help to ignore the fact that web

Re: About the Cybertrust Educational CA certificate

2008-09-17 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 09/18/2008 03:06 AM, Wan-Teh Chang: It would be nice to contribute a patch for Apache/mod_ssl to validate its own certificate chain at startup. Perhaps then you should also offer a patch for IIS ;-) Ironic as it may sound, but as a matter of fact, Windows servers serve more secured web

Re: About the Cybertrust Educational CA certificate

2008-09-17 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Eddy Nigg wrote, On 2008-09-17 16:52: There is absolutely no security issue at all with following the AIA CA Issuer extension, otherwise FF could not use the same extension to find the OCSP responder URL either. Nevertheless NSS does exactly that...uses the OCSP URL listed in the AIA