Re: Proposal for Mozilla CA policy extension

2007-02-28 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: Johnathan Nightingale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imagine that we found a way to clearly present to the user: + Your connection is encrypted + The site's identity has been verified + You've been here many times before + This site is trusted by (your friends |

Re: Registerfly

2007-03-02 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Gervase Markham wrote: Nelson Bolyard wrote: Is FlySSL acting as a Registration Authority (RA) for Geotrust/Comodo? I don't think so; but how would I tell? Is the only way to tell by asking Geotrust and Comodo? That probably the best way. Or is there something that has

Re: VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA?

2007-03-23 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Melelina wrote: The cert is issued to www.microsoft.ipsos.com by Verisign. Or it appears to be. I want to use Fx at Microsoft sites and I am very tired of Fx problems with Microsoft certs But you haven't yet shown any evidence of FF having a problem with a Microsoft site. The site you

Re: VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA?

2007-03-24 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: Nelson Bolyard wrote: Yes, there is a standard for certs that allows (but does not require) relying parties to go search on the internet for missing intermediate CA certs. Do you have the quote from the corresponding RFC for this? It's RFC 3280 section

Re: VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA?

2007-03-24 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Throughout the lifetime of mozilla browsers, there have been innumerable web sites that worked with IE but not mozilla, because those web sites' content depended on IE behavior, and were not testing with any browser other than IE. Countless users have whined to mozilla with messages saying (in

Re: EV Draft Review Discussion

2007-05-09 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Gervase Markham wrote: Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: The fact that connections to expired certificates are allowed by most if not all browser vendors contributes to this problem, if this certificate is removed from the CRL...than it's just an expired certificate which was once valid,

Re: Accepting certificates

2007-08-31 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Stefanos, If you'[re really worried about students being MITM attacked, then you might ask why the University has so many https sites using invalid certs which necessitate the users getting this dialog in the first place. Don't worry, in FF3, this dialog will go away completely.

Re: Extract of CA certificates

2008-02-10 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Gervase Markham wrote, On 2008-02-09 02:35: Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: Since sometimes there are some licensing concerns with the certdata.txt file, I wanted to know exactly what one is allowed to do. If for example by merely extracting the CA certificates with a tool like

Re: error code 12205

2008-02-27 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Boris Zbarsky wrote, On 2008-02-26 21:32 PST: Vladi Rocha wrote: Hi developers. I am trying to avoid the popup when you remove a token PKCS11 while an operation was in progress. You probably want mozilla.dev.tech.crypto for this question... Unfortunately, this is a PSM question, not an NSS

Re: Including all root certs in FF3

2008-03-05 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Rick Andrews wrote on 2008-03-04 16:36 PST: Where can I find a list of features included in FF3? Does it include support for SHA-256 and ECC? The cryptographic algorithms and TLS cipher suites supported in FF3 will be the same as in present versions of FF2, with the following additional cipher

Re: Add own algorithm to NSS

2008-09-03 Thread Nelson Bolyard
bezuglyi wrote, On 2008-09-03 02:32 PDT: I want to add my own cipher algorithm to NSS library, like gost engine in openssl, is it possible? If yes can anyone explain the procedure You'll find more people who can help with this in the dev-tech-crypto mailing list, which is also the

Re: TLS, if available in Thunderbird

2008-09-18 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Ben Bucksch wrote, On 2008-09-17 13:55: Thunderbird currently has the SSL options: Never (plain), TLS, if available, TLS (always), and SSL (always), for incoming IMAP/POP3 and outgoing SMTP servers (with slightly different UI wording). TLS is basically SSL version 3. Damn! Those old wrong

Re: PR_Sleep question,help!

2008-09-26 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Note: cross posted to mozilla.dev.tech.nspr. Follow up messages are directed there. lixiangfeng wrote, On 2008-09-26 01:39: Hi,I write a program use mozilla nss . My process will scan some variable for a expected value.when the variable equals some value,my process will dosomething.So,I

Re: NSS Binaries

2008-12-14 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Roy Donaldson wrote, On 2008-12-11 11:00: I'm sure the answer is somewhere out there, but I can't seem to find it no matter where I look. Are there binary distributions of NSS (specifically, the slightly older versions that are FIPS 140-2 certified) for download, or do I need to compile

Re: Bad Record Mac

2008-12-21 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Roy Donaldson wrote, On 2008-12-19 12:27 PST: I'm trying to create a FIPS 140-2 compliant SSL connection using the Sun JSSE (SunPKCS11) and NSS. I suppose you mean a FIPS compliant TLS connection. TLS is SSL version 3.1 (or newer). FIPS 140 compliance requires the use of TLS. Crypto

Re: Return of i18n attacks with the help of wildcard certificates

2009-02-20 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote, On 2009-02-20 07:55: Eddy Nigg wrote: On 02/19/2009 03:30 PM, Jean-Marc Desperrier: Moxie Marlinspike in Black Hat has just demonstrated a very serious i18n attack using a *.ijjk.cn certificate.

Re: Shared security Db in FF-3.5?

2009-07-05 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-07-03 01:43 PDT, Andrei Korostelev wrote: Does Firefox 3.5 already support multi-process shared secrurity database or it is still single-process? By default, it is still the old single-process cert8 and key3 DBs, as before. However, FF 3.5 has the code to support shared-access cert9

Re: cert_override.txt format

2009-08-12 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-08-10 15:32 PDT, Sid Stamm wrote: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/manager/ssl/src/nsCertOverrideService.cpp#259 This is a bit of NSS that reads the cert_override.txt file It's not NSS. If it was NSS, you would see /nss/ in the path name above. It's PSM, and

Re: security.OCSP.require in Firefox

2009-10-13 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Daniel Veditz wrote: On 10/13/09 10:12 AM, Eddy Nigg wrote: #B is important because we are already month after the alleged bug happened, plenty of time to get the act together. I think this warrants some actions, a review and renewed confirmation of compliance might be a good thing to do

Re: Who is using NSS in their projects?

2010-03-06 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2010-03-03 10:58 PST, Shailendra Jain wrote: Is this source of information about Linux planning to integrate NSS as main security features available some where in the web or in Linux doc? RedHat is doing this for RedHat Linux. I'm sure you will find info on RedHat's web site. I don't know

Re: Who is using NSS in their projects?

2010-03-06 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2010-03-02 10:06 PST, davidwboswell davidwbosw...@yahoo.com wrote: I maintain a list of applications that use Mozilla technologies in their projects and wanted to add more examples of projects that use NSS. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mozilla-based.html There are lots of applications

Re: Loading http:// from file://

2010-12-20 Thread Nelson Bolyard
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