On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 18:13:59 GMT, Bob Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> allegedly wrote:
>> If I have more than one signing/encryption certificate, I would rather >> have a display of my signing/encryption certificates and choose which >> one I want to use. > > It sounds like you'd like to have overrides for the basic prefs on a > per-message basis. How common do you think this configuration would be? > In other words, what percentage of users would want to have more than > one cert per email address/account? Probably fairly small, but still useful. In my normal line of work I'd use my "default" certificate containing employer information etc. However, I may also use that same email address & account to send personal email or post messages to non-work related newsgroups (shock-horror! :) - and at that stage, I would like to use a personal certificate that doesn't contain any employer information, as it's nothing to do with my company. > Check out the Cert Manager in N6.2 or the corresponding Mozilla build. > Some old pics are here: http://people.netscape.com/lord/psm/n61/ > Does that meet your needs? I've just reviewed that page, and having read it something suddenly clicked. I use/have used S/MIME and certificates in general in a lot of products, and I was until this moment under the impression that the latest offering of Mozilla/Netscape did not allow you to install a new personal certificate... then I read your page and realise that the "Restore" button does exactly that. Am I too technically minded and clouded to realise the obvious? Or is this something that could be made clearer? For me, Import was more obvious. I made the (wrong) assumption that my personal certificates were picked up when I installed the browser, from my 4.7 installation. Doh! >> Multiple signatures on a document: >> >> It would be a great advantage for workflow if the S/MIME tool would >> permit multiple people >> to sign a message, one after another. What kind of UI would permit one >> to "validate all >> signatures" and see which ones were not validatable? > > > Any proposals you have would be helpful. I don't have an answer off the > top of my head. Perhaps an icon to indicate multiple signatures are present on the message. A user clicks on the icon and a nested/tree view of all the signatories is shown. Icons against each signatory indicate if the signature is valid or bad. - Dave.
