ETA on smaller stick penalty for CA Violations? (paging bsmith)

2012-02-21 Thread Stephen Schultze
(please send follow-ups to mozilla.dev.tech.crypto) Brian has in the past discussed proposed updates to NSS that would allow us to penalize bad CA behavior by removing trust of all certs from a given CA that were issued after a given date (or even for X amount of time after a given date).

Re: ETA on smaller stick penalty for CA Violations? (paging bsmith)

2012-02-21 Thread Gervase Markham
On 19/02/12 04:30, Jan Schejbal wrote: A different interesting approach for a punishment could be removal of the ability to create Sub-CAs. This would not put a CA out of business like other solutions, but hurt it and most importantly, remove an extremely risky ability. This could probably be

Re: ETA on smaller stick penalty for CA Violations? (paging bsmith)

2012-02-21 Thread Stephen Schultze
On 2/18/12 11:30 PM, Jan Schejbal wrote: Am 2012-02-19 02:46, schrieb Stephen Schultze: Brian, any thoughts on this? Is this something we should be holding out for, or should we look to other approaches? A different interesting approach for a punishment could be removal of the ability to

Verifying a certificate against a given root store

2012-02-21 Thread Matthias Vallentin
I would like to know the rough workflow to verify a certificate against a user-supplied root store. Specifically, what NSS functions would one use for that purpose? I have looked at various headers (nss.h, cert.h, pk11pub.h, etc.) and searched the web for usage examples, but could not stich

cannot sign using key from databases in JSS

2012-02-21 Thread Anderson Mills
I've been trying for quite a while to figure out how to sign a digital object using JSS in FIPS mode with a keypair imported from a PKCS12 file into the JSS/NSS databases. Unfortunately, I cannot get it to work, as anything oriented to getting the private key available for signing returns null

Regarding ssl handshake

2012-02-21 Thread maddy
While doing SSL handshake my code returns the Data transfer interrupted error. I must say that the socket library that I have doesn't have a non blocking recv. What I observed with the SSL trace logs from my Windows code is as follows: 1. Socket thread keeps sending GET requests 2. nsSSLThread