Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-17 Thread Steve
May I ask why a university didn't just obtain another SSL certificate? I mean you can obtain SSL certificates (RapidSSL is ~$20) cheap now. ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org

Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-17 Thread Rob Stradling
On Wednesday 16 July 2008 15:08:15 Frank Hecker wrote: ... We are doing what we can. However by design we do not simply rubber-stamp CA requests. We have an official policy which was developed through a process of community consultation, and we follow a similar process of community discussion

Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-17 Thread Eddy Nigg
Rob Stradling: On Wednesday 16 July 2008 15:08:15 Frank Hecker wrote: ... We are doing what we can. However by design we do not simply rubber-stamp CA requests. We have an official policy which was developed through a process of community consultation, and we follow a similar process of

RE: 3rd party ECC module + NSS integration

2008-07-17 Thread David Stutzman
Nelson, Thanks for the info, I tried to list out the tags from the repository which didn't go so well so I just grabbed the HEAD for everything and it ended up working just fine for me, both on the command line and for Dogtag. The Dogtag devs and I have updated the wiki to remove the

Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-17 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Thorsten Becker wrote: [...] I'm currently seeing more and more Firefox users migrating to version 3.0. [...] Firefox is quite harsh about unknown certificates. The reactions of the users are either of: [...] -switching the browser the latter more likely than the former. Consequently we

EV SSL cert user experience

2008-07-17 Thread pld
I have specific question to a preferred setup of a EV SSL server PKI and how the user experience will be. The setup is the following: Assume that a EV compliant primary root cert of CA X is accepted and preinstalled in Firefox 3.x (FF3). The hierarchi is now CA X PCA root  |  +- CA X SSL

Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-17 Thread Frank Hecker
Rob Stradling wrote: Frank, is there any reason why you can't have multiple candidate CAs having their public discussion periods simultaneously? No reason at all; in fact, technically we have two in public discussion right now (GlobalSign and T-Systems). The major bottleneck is collecting

Re: EV SSL cert user experience

2008-07-17 Thread Frank Hecker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have specific question to a preferred setup of a EV SSL server PKI and how the user experience will be. Im not the expert on this, but I can perhaps give you a preliminary answer until the experts show up. Assume that a EV compliant primary root cert of CA X is

Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-17 Thread Rob Stradling
On Thursday 17 July 2008 13:33:04 Frank Hecker wrote: Rob Stradling wrote: Frank, is there any reason why you can't have multiple candidate CAs having their public discussion periods simultaneously? No reason at all; Thanks Frank. That's good to hear. in fact, technically we have two in

Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-17 Thread Frank Hecker
Rob Stradling wrote: Frank, in Bug #421946 Comment #15 you said: I'll proceed with the first public comment period once I figure out where this request sits in the queue relative to other similar requests. If the public comment/discussion periods are not the major bottleneck, then can you

Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-17 Thread Rob Stradling
On Thursday 17 July 2008 16:50:50 Frank Hecker wrote: Rob Stradling wrote: Frank, in Bug #421946 Comment #15 you said: I'll proceed with the first public comment period once I figure out where this request sits in the queue relative to other similar requests. If the public

Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-17 Thread Eddy Nigg
Frank Hecker: P.S. Incidentally, I have no problem whatsoever with CAs pinging me directly (via email or phone or whatever) to remind me that their requests need attention. Please feel free to do that if ever you should need to. Frank, I think you mentioned in the past the ECC requests are

Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-17 Thread Eddy Nigg
Frank Hecker: Eddy Nigg wrote: Frank Hecker: P.S. Incidentally, I have no problem whatsoever with CAs pinging me directly (via email or phone or whatever) to remind me that their requests need attention. Please feel free to do that if ever you should need to. Frank, I think you mentioned

Wells Fargo CA inclusion/EV request

2008-07-17 Thread Frank Hecker
I am now opening the first public discussion period for a request from Wells Fargo to add the WellsSecure Public Root Certificate Authority root certificate to Mozilla and enable it for EV use. This is bug 428390, and Kathleen has produced an information document attached to the bug.

Re: 3rd party ECC module + NSS integration

2008-07-17 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
David Stutzman wrote: Nelson, Thanks for the info, I tried to list out the tags from the repository which didn't go so well so I just grabbed the HEAD for everything and it ended up working just fine for me, both on the command line and for Dogtag. The Dogtag devs and I have updated the

Re: Comodo ECC CA inclusion/EV request

2008-07-17 Thread Paul Hoffman
Has anyone validated the ECC paramters they used? ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: 3rd party ECC module + NSS integration

2008-07-17 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:39 AM, David Stutzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nelson, Thanks for the info, I tried to list out the tags from the repository which didn't go so well so I just grabbed the HEAD for everything and it ended up working just fine for me, both on the command line and for