Bob Lee wrote:

> To use the certificate and cryptography components of NSS, do I need to have
> Netscape installed?


No. All the commands in mozilla/security/cmd are completely independent 
of any browser. NSS is used by many products besides the client.

>  If not, then how do specify a cert7.db and key3.db
> files to NSS?


You specify the directory they live in when you call NSS_Init. see the 
mozilla website (under security) for documentation on how to use NSS. 
(good documentation on initialization of NSS, and using SSL).


> 
> Also, is the key3.db handled through the pkcs11 functions?  If not, then how
> can I do so. 


Yes in NSS 3.4 all database functions are handled through pkcs11 in 
previous versions all keydb functions were.

bob

 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Bob.
> 


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