Rodrigue Butaye wrote:
You don't use the right tools... You use a Mozilla 1.5 with a cert8.db. Rename the cert8.db into cert7.db will not solver your problem. The signtool you use doesn't work with Mozilla1.5 but Netscape6 or 7(I don't remember).
Then this should like be written on Mozillas page in human readable form. Mozillas page lacks elementary navigation and relations in documents which seem to be outdated or just can be misread, are weak. It is written by insiders to insiders, thus it is very hard for a newbee to understand it, thus populariing mozilla based browsers suffers, because outsiders who could add value supporting the product in their own products have hard time to get the picture easily.
So download the nss3.8(on the Mozilla site) and use the signtool furnished with this version of NSS.
I have nothing to do with this as I have no c compiler
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/cmd/certutil/
there are no binaries. Days ago I donwloaded also some zip files, but they lacked binaries, and gave up all thge hope.
Gee, thank both of you I now found binaries wheres there is signtool in it. I will give it a try next week.
For other outsiders that would have the same question and happen to read this using some news archive, I save long time wasted workhours by FYIng that I downloaded signtool from locations such as.
3.2 MB
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_8_RTM/WINNT4.0_OPT.OBJ/nss-3.8.zip
This is the optimized version (_OPT.OBJ) - this is probably the one you want to use.
11.6MB
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_8_RTM/WINNT4.0_DBG.OBJ/nss-3.8.zip
This is a debug version (_DBG.OBJ) - this is mainly for developers.
11.8MB
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_8_RTM/WINNT4.0_DBG.OBJD/nss-3.8.zip
This is another debug version (_DBG.OBJD) - this is built with the Windows debugging libraries as well in case you need that extra debug information.
As I said, unless you are developing code that uses NSS, or just want to step through the code in the debugger (the Visual Studio debugger), you will want the optimized version (the 3.2 MB version).
So far I intuitively undesrtand from error message box created by running one of the utils found in ZIP files LIB directory I also have to add in my stytem PATH variable the directory name to those DLL files, that are in ZIP files LIB directory, and reboot Windows.
Now I have a question. I thought that the 3.2MB version is so small because it has no source code bundled with it, but it has.
What is the major difference of those 3 ZIP files and is it sufficient to use that 3.2MB thing to sign and HTML page to create signed Javacscripts?
Thanks both of you for helping, I positively surprised =D
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