Mozilla 1.0 went out with a number of bugs in NSS. This is one of them. 
You can replace your nss3.dll ssl3.dll smime3.dll and softoken3.dll with 
more recent builds and that should solve this problem.

bob

Yves Bronoel wrote:
> I have some problems with the certificate store of
> Mozilla and I am wondering if it a known bug or not.
> 
> I am writing a small PKCS #11 module and using it with
> mozilla 1.0. In the module I have got a certificate and
> a private key issued by OpenSSL for signing and
> encrypting mails. The certificate is well displayed and
> I can choose it as my user certificate and sign mails.
> 
> But once I have read a mail signed with my own certificate,
> and restarted Mozilla, I am not able to view my certificate in
> "Your Certificates". It is only present in "Other People's".
> After, I am still able to sign and decrypt mail but I can't
> choose my certificate in "Mail & Newsgroup Account
> Settings". The result is empty as "Your certificate" of course.
> 
> It seems that the certificate stored in cert7.db and displayed
> in "Other People's" is masking my own certificate.
> 
> Another instance of this problem (without any PKCS #11
> module) may be seen by importing a user certificate thanks
> to PKCS#12 when the certificate is already present in
> "Other People's". It is said to be sucessful by Mozilla but
> you have no access to your certificate after. Moreover,
> after a new start of Mozilla, there is no certificate any
> more even in "Other People's"
> 
> I have tried my module with Netscape 4.77 and it doesn't have
> this kind of problem.
> 
> Yves Bronoel
> 


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