Re: Mozilla's behavior dealing with client certificate selection

2004-06-09 Thread Gervase Markham
Julien Pierre wrote: Perhaps we should have something like this too. Do we have something in NSS to clear the cache for all SSL client sessions ? I don't seem to recall that we do. I seem to remember that the function has been implemented, but it has no UI. checks No, I was thinking of HTTP

Re: Mozilla's behavior dealing with client certificate selection

2004-06-09 Thread Nelson B
Julien Pierre wrote: Yeah, the latest version of IE 6.0 has a new button in the Certificates portion of the Contents tab in the Internet Options control panel. The new button says Clear SSL State. Their context-dependent help says it wipes out the SSL cache. Presumably this is so that you can

Re: Mozilla's behavior dealing with client certificate selection

2004-06-09 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Julien Pierre wrote: In order to login again to the same server with a new identity, you would need to invalidate the SSL session. [...] [...] it's pretty hard to envision what that would look like, from a user interface point of view. There might be a simple solution. See

Re: Mozilla's behavior dealing with client certificate selection

2004-06-08 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Nelson Bolyard wrote: Once you authenticate to a server that properly implements SSL session caching, each subsequent time you visit that server (until 24 hours pass, or you restart your browser), the client will say to the server I've previously authenticated an SSL sesiion with you, and here's

Re: Mozilla's behavior dealing with client certificate selection

2004-06-08 Thread Julien Pierre
Jean-Marc, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: Nelson Bolyard wrote: Once you authenticate to a server that properly implements SSL session caching, each subsequent time you visit that server (until 24 hours pass, or you restart your browser), the client will say to the server I've previously

Re: Mozilla's behavior dealing with client certificate selection

2004-06-08 Thread Nelson B
Julien Pierre wrote: Jean-Marc, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: For more advanced usage of client authentification, it can happen that you own several certs representing several identities that you may wish to wish concurently to connect to the server, or to change without having to close the

Re: Mozilla's behavior dealing with client certificate selection

2004-06-08 Thread Julien Pierre
Nelson, Nelson B wrote: Julien Pierre wrote: Jean-Marc, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: For more advanced usage of client authentification, it can happen that you own several certs representing several identities that you may wish to wish concurently to connect to the server, or to

Mozilla's behavior dealing with client certificate selection

2004-05-27 Thread Nicolas
I am investigating how mozilla deals with client certificate authentication. So far, i understood there are two modes, according on how the option client certificate selection is set. When select automatically is set, mozilla chooses the newest client certificate, i.e, the one that has the most