Yes I am aware of Secclab - I've had a look and I was thinking of working on that.
As far as I know however, it doesn't support Netscape 6.1 - there is a post on the Secclab mailing list that implies that porting to 6.1 would be a major development effort, basically rewriting the plugin from scratch, that's why I was leaning towards that option.
If someone could tell me what is missing from the Netscape 6.1 version of mozzila that makes it difficult to perform that port, it would be a good start ;-).
OK. What is the point of developping something for Netscape 6.1 ? Netscape 6.1 was based on the Mozilla 0.9.2.1 which was slow and unstable, and has a lot of known vulnerabilities with no patch.
And if you do something for Netscape 6.1, it will have indeed to be very specific, because the interface for chrome was not stabilized, and I believe the interface for nss too has changed.
The point also is that S/MIME was not there in that release, and Secclab is based on the S/MIME support in Mozilla. So you'd have to do it all from scratch using NSS. I also don't know how much pkcs#7 support there was in NSS at the time, this can be a problem too, and if it's missing the scale of the problem becomes very serious.
Honestly it would be a lot easier to write a profile management tools that would garantee anybody can update his 6.1 profile without having any problem even if some data is corrupted.
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