I think there were 28 certs imported from those 3 chains in Firefox, versus 32 in Internet Explorer.

Seamonkey is still compiling. I see that it's based on Mozilla? The SSL error when trying to connect to a CAC-logon site or send a digitally signed e-mail is pretty baffling. If I don't get to the bottom of this before the end of this TDY I'll be very curious to see if I have the same problem with Firefox on OS X. At least Safari is an option on Mac.

David Mueller wrote:
Do you import all three sets of certs from the DISA rootca site?  I usually get some errors with the first one as well, but not with the second two.  I haven't looked closely to compare but I haven't run into any problems with missing certs.

- David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Reinholz" 
To: MUSCLE 
Subject: Re: [Muscle] certificate error using DoD CAC with Firefox	or	Thunderbird
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:50:58 -0600


Thank you for your reply!

I discovered that Firefox failed to import 4 of the certificates 
contained within those 3 certificate chains at 
http://dodpki.c3pki.chamb.disa.mil/rootca.html. I had a friend with 
access to a Windows box import the certificate chains and send me 
those 4 missing certificates, but still no luck in either Firefox 
or Thunderbird.

I'm going to give Seamonkey a try and see if that helps.

I originally compiled Coolkey but for some reason libcoolkey.so 
wouldn't link against libpcsclite, and either Firefox or 
Thunderbird would segfault upon trying to add libcoolkey.so as a 
security device.

My other computer is a Mac, so there is some attraction to 
supporting my CAC via the same framework (and same CACPlugin) on 
both systems.

I'm going to keep working on it and see if I can resolve this SSL error. . .

David Mueller wrote:
  
I usually recommend the Coolkey PKCS#11 module to access a CAC.  
I haven't heard of anyone trying to use it with FreeBSD, but as 
it works with Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, I imagine it would 
probably work with FreeBSD as well.  It isn't that hard to 
compile.  But if your home-brewed bundle works for SSLv3/TLSv1 
servers then that should be fine as well.

http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/CoolKey

I haven't had problems with trying to sign/encrypt email with 
Thunderbird, but I have also had problems trying to access SSLv2 
sites with Firefox 2.  I've also tried going into about:config 
and enabling everything as you outlined and that hasn't worked 
either.  SeaMonkey worked but I can't recall if it still does 
with current versions; usually the few times I've had to access 
an SSLv2 site I've used Safari.

- David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Reinholz" To: [email protected]
Subject: [Muscle] certificate error using DoD CAC with Firefox or Thunderbird
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:38:38 -0600

  Ladies and Gentlemen,

I noticed some posts regarding this problem in the mailing 
listarchives from January 2007 and 
athttp://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=487555. However, 
I didnot see a solution (other than downgrading to firefox-1.5).

I am running firefox-2.0.0.9 on FreeBSD 7.0-beta2 (i386). My CAC 
issupported via an SCM SCR 331 smart card reader, 
pcsc-lite-1.4.4,libmusclecard-1.3.3, muscleframework-1.1.6, and a 
home-brewedcommonAccessCard.bundle created using Apple's 
CACPlugin fromSmartCardServices-32672 (from Mac OS X 10.5).

I registered my CAC using bundleTool and loaded 
libmusclepkcs11.so.0 asa security module in Firefox and 
Thunderbird. Assuming I insert my CAC beforelaunching Firefox or 
Thunderbird, going to View Certificates prompts mefor my PIN, 
after which my personal certificates display.

I added the 3 certificate chains 
athttp://dodpki.c3pki.chamb.disa.mil/rootca.html, 
plushttp://dodpki.c3pki.chamb.disa.mil/dodroot.cac for good 
measure whenthe latter wasn't enough. I checked the boxes to 
accept thecertificates for all 3 possible purposes.

Going to a CAC site (such as AF Portal and choosing CAC Login), I 
amprompted for my PIN and to choose a certificate. I've tried 
both mye-mail and my non-e-mail certificate, and either way 
receive thefollowing error message:

Error establishing an encrypted connection to www.my.af.mil. 
ErrorCode: -12222.

I did a little research and this is apparently an SSL error that 
means"Unableto digitally sign data required to verify your 
certificate." (Accordingto 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslerr.html)

When attempting to digitally sign an e-mail using one of 
thecertificates on my CAC in Thunderbird (thunderbird-2.0.0.4), I 
receivean error about my certificate. (Just a verbose version of 
Firefox'scryptic error code -12222 message).

I noticed that Firefox uses SSL v3, and I read elsewhere in 
thesemailing list archives that DoD sites still use SSL v2. I 
enabled SSL v2(disabled by default) in Firefox by going to 
about:config in theaddress bar, typing ssl2 as a filter, and 
changing all of the values reSSL v2 from "false" to "true." Still 
no luck logging onto AF Portal orOWA.

Has anyone had this same problem, and does anyone know of a 
workaround(short of downgrading to firefox-1.5 or installing an 
older version ofmozilla as a secondary browser)?

Thank you for your help!

V/r,
Kevin Reinholz



    


  

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