Re: Firebird/Thunderbird and PKCS#11

2003-08-28 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Gervase Markham wrote: Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: I'm surprised this problem has no solution. Well most database solutions seems to be available only under the GPL, but a special agreement could probably be negotiated. But unless the special agreement was a relicensing under the MPL/GPL/NPL (or

Re: Firebird/Thunderbird and PKCS#11

2003-08-28 Thread Brendan Eich
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: [...] Nobody seems to have given any thought to this major problem, which basically means you can't share your cert and key databases between Firebird and Thunderbird if they are running at the same time. But the best solution would probably be a separate process

Re: Firebird/Thunderbird and PKCS#11

2003-08-26 Thread Julien Pierre
Jean-Marc, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: Julien Pierre wrote: [NSS DB access not multi-process safe] Solving this problem involves using a new database format. The NSS team researched the issue of licensing other database code that didn't suffer from the single-process limitation, but none was

Re: Firebird/Thunderbird and PKCS#11

2003-08-26 Thread Gervase Markham
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: I'm surprised this problem has no solution. Well most database solutions seems to be available only under the GPL, but a special agreement could probably be negotiated. But unless the special agreement was a relicensing under the MPL/GPL/NPL (or a BSD-like license)

Re: Firebird/Thunderbird and PKCS#11

2003-08-25 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Julien Pierre wrote: [NSS DB access not multi-process safe] Solving this problem involves using a new database format. The NSS team researched the issue of licensing other database code that didn't suffer from the single-process limitation, but none was found that would satisfy all licensing

Re: Firebird/Thunderbird and PKCS#11

2003-08-24 Thread X-Istence
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: Julien Pierre wrote: -snip- At this time, your best bet if you want good security support including smartcards is to stick with the monolithic Mozilla browser, which already has the PSM (Personal Security Manager)

Re: Firebird/Thunderbird and PKCS#11

2003-08-24 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Julien Pierre wrote: -snip- At this time, your best bet if you want good security support including smartcards is to stick with the monolithic Mozilla browser, which already has the PSM (Personal Security Manager) and will function correctly as

Firebird/Thunderbird and PKCS#11

2003-08-22 Thread abc
These spin-offs don't support smartcards. Is this an indication that post-Mozilla1.5 versions of the browser and e-mail client will drop support for digital signature/e-mail/smartcards?