In the newsgroup news://news.mozilla.org:119/netscape.public.mozilla.browser
in a thread named "Master Password", there is a discussion about the
absence of UI for setting or using a Master Password in Thunderbird.
Hard to find in the UI, but it's there (at least in TB 0.7.1). Same place as FF (0.9.1). Had to use Google to figure this out - search for words "master", "password", "thunderbird" and this is the first link:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Set_a_Master_Password
I did not find how to reset master password, or how to set master password timeouts - I even tried making chrome://pippki/content/pref-masterpass.xul the "message of the day" or whatever it is called but I got an error about a missing entity.
Now, if it's true that TBird users CANNOT password protect their key DBs, then I think we (NSS developers) should insist that this be fixed. This is a GROSS security hole. Perhaps we should declare a moratorium on additional NSS work until this capability is restored ot the TBird UI.
Isn't it premature to think about moratoriums without talking to the developers first and seeing if you can reason with them? A little positive attitude and cooperation can go a long way...
-- Heikki Toivonen _______________________________________________ mozilla-crypto mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-crypto
