On 6 jul, 07:22, Nelson Bolyard <nonelsons...@nobolyardspam.me> wrote: > On 2009-07-03 01:43 PDT, Andrei Korostelev wrote: > > > Does Firefox 3.5 already support multi-process shared secrurity > > database or it is still single-process? > > By default, it is still the old single-process cert8 and key3 DBs, > as before. > > However, FF 3.5 has the code to support shared-access cert9 and key4 DBs, > based on sqlite3. You can force FF 3.5 to use that by setting an > environment variable. > > > Is non-shared security Db still the case with upcoming Firefox 3.5? > > The old non-shared security DBs are still the default in FF 3.5. > > > Is SecurityDb in Firefox 3 multiuser? > > Multi-user is a different matter than multi-process. > FF 3.5's new cert9 and key3 DB are multi-process capable, > but I would NOT describe them as multi-user. > They are a pair, and the private keys in the key DB are, of course, > private to each individual user. So, each user needs his/her own > key DB, and since they are a pair, this implies that each user needs > his/her own cert DB too. But with cert9.db, all that user's processes > can share a common pair of DBs.
Thank you. Are there plans to make this shared Db default, say, in FF 4? _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
