Re: signtool.exe

2006-11-09 Thread Nelson B
should I do? Does your key3.db file now contain the private key for your cert? Is your cert an object signing cert? Or merely code signing? -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org

Re: Forcing the SSL handshake

2006-11-03 Thread Nelson B
Rob Crittenden wrote: Nelson B wrote: Rob Crittenden wrote: In an SSL client I want to force the SSL handshake to take place instead of passively waiting for it to happen during the first write. Here are a few (?) questions and comments: 1. Is this a blocking socket, or non-blocking

Re: Forcing the SSL handshake

2006-11-03 Thread Nelson B
, at a baser level, that there doesn't appear to be a way to send a client_hello message without receiving a server_hello first? I'm sure that's not the problem, since the SSL protocol doesn't allow the server to send the server hello until after it has received the client hello. -- Nelson B

Re: Forcing the SSL handshake

2006-11-02 Thread Nelson B
on the sslsocket before calling ForceHandshake. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: html include syntax for signed scripts

2006-10-26 Thread Nelson B
you ask in mozilla.dev.general. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Getting SSL server cert from within a plugin

2006-10-25 Thread Nelson B
is not regularly read by the folks familiar with the JavaScript code you're using. You might try another of the mozilla.dev.tech newsgroups, but I don't know which one (if any) will give you better results. Sorry. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev

Re: Help on building NSPR, NSS on Windows

2006-10-25 Thread Nelson B
expletive /cygdrive hack. You need to configure cygwin to NOT use /cygdrive but instead use windows compatible path names. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Import PKCS#12 cert into FF

2006-10-20 Thread Nelson B
options -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Firefox https return error code -8101

2006-10-09 Thread Nelson B
or more extensions that specifically disallow its use for SSL server authentication or for key encryption. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: ports and ipv6 brackets in certificate subjects

2006-10-06 Thread Nelson B
Rich Megginson wrote: Nelson B wrote: Below, you seem to be asking how they are stored in certificates. I'll answer the questions about what appear in certs. 1) Are appended ports actually allowed in the subjectAltName or CN? No. How about the return value from SSL_RevealURL( fd

Re: question about gathering data in SSL

2006-09-28 Thread Nelson B
the same application that called PR_Read, presumably the application can arrange to communicate that knowledge to itself. See also http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/ssl/notes.txt -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech

Re: RFC2511 or PKCS10 and SPKAC

2006-09-28 Thread Nelson B
at this. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: nickname and FIPS mode password length restrictions

2006-09-27 Thread Nelson B
is that this is a difference between 3.11.2 and 3.11.3. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Mozilla's use of AIA caIssuers URIs

2006-09-27 Thread Nelson B
numbers means that one or more CAs goofed. Anders -- Nelson B 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 0112233445566778 ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list

Re: AES in CFB128 mode?

2006-09-25 Thread Nelson B
. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: handshake, next handshake, security handshake

2006-09-25 Thread Nelson B
implementaion? Yes, I think so. What is the ss-securityHandshake used for? I think it may now be unused. I think it was part of the old SOCKS implementation that was abandoned. Regards, Peter -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech

Re: export web sites certificate

2006-09-25 Thread Nelson B
Kaspar Brand wrote: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315871 Would it make sense to create a separate bug entry for the getPKCS7() patch, since this is actually a backend-only thing? Kaspar, let me suggest that you write to Kai and ask him directly how to proceed. -- Nelson B

Re: export web sites certificate

2006-09-22 Thread Nelson B
NSS or PSM developers, but I welcome any help with NSS or PSM. Kaspar -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: about s/mime

2006-09-22 Thread Nelson B
of the browser in it. See http://lxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/cmd/smimetools/cmsutil.c -- Nelson B 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 0112233445566778

Re: nickname and FIPS mode password length restrictions

2006-09-20 Thread Nelson B
glen beasley wrote: Nelson B wrote: David Stutzman wrote: What is the min/max password length when the module is operating in FIPS 140-2 mode? Wan-Teh will have to answer that. I think it has changed recently. It seems that the requirements have changed since the last time NSS

Re: TLS-client-auth FIPS201

2006-09-14 Thread Nelson B
of independent sub-ordinate CAs. Any comments? Solution involves client keeping the cert chain(s) for its EE cert(s), at least to the level of the CA named by the server. Anders -- Nelson B 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890

Re: Concurrent usage of NSS DB (one writer, multiple readers)

2006-09-11 Thread Nelson B
and multiple readers to the NSS DB is a safe method of sharing a cert database between processes. No, it is not. Sorry. Specifically, only one process would initialize with NSS_InitReadWrite() and all others would initialize with NSS_Init() -- Nelson B

Re: OCSP/CRL handling in Firefox

2006-09-02 Thread Nelson B
guessing that your request somehow got resent accidentally. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: why NSS can't build in windowsxp?

2006-08-31 Thread Nelson B
be welcome, I think. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: problems with NSS and NSPR binaries

2006-08-30 Thread Nelson B
of the WinNT flavor builds is not interested in also offering Win95 flavor builds. Thanks! Michiel van Meersbergen -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: vague error message from certutil attempting keygen

2006-08-30 Thread Nelson B
error message in that case is not. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: signing javascript

2006-08-29 Thread Nelson B
Christian, I see you're not the first person to have had troubles with this. See http://forums.tjworld.net/viewtopic.php?p=210 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321156 . Based on your description (which I'll not quote here), I think your intermediate CA cert does not have the

Re: signing javascript

2006-08-27 Thread Nelson B
it to run signtool. Any pointers on whether this is possible and how to do so? Make sure that the complete chain is available to signtool, then try signing again. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https

Re: Simple guide for using certs and crypt on a smart card

2006-08-26 Thread Nelson B
someone has some info for me Christian Bongiorno Ciao, -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: problems with NSS and NSPR binaries

2006-08-26 Thread Nelson B
/source/security/nss/cmd/lib/NSPRerrs.h http://lxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/cmd/lib/SECerrs.h http://lxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/cmd/lib/SSLerrs.h Sample code to do that is seen at http://lxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/cmd/lib/secerror.c#53 -- Nelson

Re: New method for linking smart cards to web browsers

2006-08-19 Thread Nelson B
Anders Rundgren wrote: http://www.w3.org/2006/02/axalto-paper.html This paper says that we can soon forget about P11 and such and rely on AJAX-like access to crypto. We wouldn't have to worry about vendor-independent crypto device interface standards if everyone in the world would agree to

Re: NSS Cache question

2006-08-19 Thread Nelson B
instance even if it has not been initialized. If it should prove not to be safe, that would be an NSS bug. thanks Hope this helps. I have a feeling I've just made the problem seem bigger :) rob -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech

Re: How to compile nss3.10 on FreeBSD?

2006-08-16 Thread Nelson B
variable. Here's a thought: Try the build with gmake instead of make. On some platforms make is gmake. On others, gmake is separate. NSS makefiles are gmake makefiles. Try using gmake explicitly. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech

Re: Get only personal certificates

2006-08-16 Thread Nelson B
not sure which of those questions you're asking. How can i set a new token device programacticali I think you're asking how to install a new PKCS#11 module, but I'm not sure. Please expect most questions to be answered after 1-2 business days. -- Nelson B

Re: Forcing specific CA for domain

2006-08-15 Thread Nelson B
3.12, so won't be available in any mozilla based products this year. He needn't wait for PKIX to do the above. PKIX is only needed if he's going to involve policy-based chain building. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto

Re: pkcs#7 envelopeddata decoding

2006-08-14 Thread Nelson B
the CKF_PROTECTED_AUTHENTICATION_PATH flag in the token info flags. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Forcing specific CA for domain

2006-08-14 Thread Nelson B
be considered valid except for *.example.com domains. If you really don't trust any CAs except your own to be truthful to you, then you should mark all other CAs but your own as distrusted. Thanks for any help. Balint Balogh Regards -- Nelson B ___ dev

Re: My shy certificate

2006-08-09 Thread Nelson B
that the private key is in the TPM. You may find it difficult to import the private key into the TPM. So, assuming that you're the first of many future HP TPM users, please help us to understand exactly how you got that private key in the first place. -- Nelson B

Re: CERT_VerifyCertificate question

2006-08-08 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
and done, there remains no durable signature. Which of those applications sounds more like yours? Figure that out, and then Pick a cert of that type. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org

Re: My shy certificate

2006-08-08 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Dave Pinn wrote: Nelson B wrote: Best bet is to get a formatted listing of the certificate itself, showing all the extensions and their criticality. OK, here goes: Non-critical X.509 version 3 extensions: * CRL Distribution Points * Authority Key Identifier * Subject Key Identifier

Re: My shy certificate

2006-08-08 Thread Nelson B
is the private key? -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Duplicate messages in this group/list

2006-07-29 Thread Nelson B
your reply goes to the mailing list, or the newsgroup, but not both. Then the readers will get just one copy. -- Nelson B (moderator: dev-tech-crypto mailing list) ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https

Re: Windows Zip Util for XPI's?

2006-07-08 Thread Nelson B
? Is there an NSS utility that does this? Signtool will tell you if your file is a valid JAR file, but will not check that it is also a valid XPI file. Ultimately, FireFox or SeaMonkey themselves are the best test tools for XPI files. Thanks in advance, Paul -- Nelson B

Re: Go Daddy 6-in1 certs and NSS?

2006-07-06 Thread Nelson B
of their 6-in-1 or wildcard certs in use on the internet. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Firefox password changer

2006-06-21 Thread Nelson B
/nss/lib/pk11wrap/pk11sdr.h#44 -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Sign/Verify text in FireFox

2006-06-16 Thread Nelson B
for this. -- Nelson B 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 0112233445566778 ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https

Re: certutil not able to retrieve the subject dn of a certificate

2006-06-16 Thread Nelson B
of this certificate. Regards, Udaybhaskar -- Nelson B 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 0112233445566778 ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev

Re: Building NSS 3.11.1 as static libraries on Windows?

2006-06-12 Thread Nelson B
time, no see! Actually, quite a few of the NSS command line tools link with NSS static libs. See a list of them with this URL: http://lxr.mozilla.org/security/search?string=USE_STATIC_LIBS I suggest you build one of them and look at its link command and follow that example. -- Nelson B

Re: crlutil: stuck in infinite loop when creating a new crl

2006-06-01 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
version number of the source file that contained this error, and where and how you got it. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Importing CRL using NSS API

2006-05-30 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
the examples of the link commands they use. That's my suggestion. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Importing CRL using NSS API

2006-05-30 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
/lib just so that we have the right to change them at will. But I don't know the answer. I wonder if we need a slightly different license than the MPL for that code. -- Nelson B 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890

Re: Firefox custom SSL (crypto) provider

2006-05-29 Thread Nelson B
whenever they like?) In any case, I do think PKCS#11 is your best bet. It's well supported and LOTS of others have trod that path before you. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo

Re: Importing CRL using NSS API

2006-05-27 Thread Nelson B
, then this is likely a problem with the declaration of SECU_ReadDERFromFile in the header file. Thanks. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Firefox custom SSL provider

2006-05-27 Thread Nelson B
easily? Thanks, Dan No, it can't be done easily. Why would it be a good idea for users to be able to replace such a crucial security component easily? -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https

Re: Signing with Firefox Built-in db

2006-05-20 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
willing to let the NSS team have that pfx file (and its password) for debugging purposes, please contact me. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: NSS Apache module - mod_nss

2006-05-18 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
/to/database), options to seed the NSS Random Number Generator, support for Apache 2.2 as well as a number of important bug fixes. Rob, You da MAN! Seriously, I really appreciate the work you (and others?) have done on this! -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto

Re: Certificate Import Question

2006-05-11 Thread Nelson B
AND private key imported, it should work. You're doing a good job of figuring out most of this stuff by yourself, which is commendable. So, keep going and I think soon you'll have it solved. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto

Re: Problems importing a certificate

2006-05-10 Thread Nelson B
Paul Santapau wrote: Nelson B escribió: All the error codes for TBird's crypto are negative numbers, in the range -6000 .. -12288 and the number 1028 isn't in that range. Ok, good guess ;-). But the number that appears is really 1028 between parenthesis. I can send u an snapshoot if wanted

Re: Certificate Import Question

2006-05-10 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
-t certificate -a -i yourfile -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Problems importing a certificate

2006-05-09 Thread Nelson B
Policy Qualifier Name: PKIX User Notice Qualifier Display Text: .C.e.r.t.i.f.i.c.a.d.o. .p.a.r.a. .a.p -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: ftps

2006-05-09 Thread Nelson B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any plans to support ftp/ssl in Firefox? I think the answer is likely: no-one who frequents this newsgroup/list is planning to do so, but you should check in m.d.t.network. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev

Re: Certificate Import Question

2006-05-09 Thread Nelson B
=335021 Also, I've searched all over looking for some documentation on certutil and signtool. Is there any around? Start looking here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/index.html Regards, Paul -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech

Wanted: public https servers that request client auth

2006-04-18 Thread Nelson B
) the URL of one or more. I'd like ot amass a list of them. Thanks. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: PKCS #7

2006-04-15 Thread Nelson B
Bruno Boutteau wrote: Nelson B wrote: Bruno Boutteau wrote: How can we import a PKCS #7 certificate or .cer in Firefox? It is easy with IE just click on it and accept the next OKs up to FINISH!!! Thanks in advance (Certificate was delivered on crypto smart card) Thanks for first answer

Re: certificate requirements for crypto.signText

2006-04-10 Thread Nelson B
Mikolaj Habryn wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 22:08 -0700, Nelson B wrote: These other functions do not, as a rule, require that the user cert have a chain that verifiably was issued by a locally trusted root. Verifying that the chain leads to a locally trusted root is a function for a relying

Re: certificate requirements for crypto.signText

2006-04-09 Thread Nelson B
should be able to do is to mark the CA only as trusted for email which limits the risks. Thanks for confirming that. Odd that crypto.signtext should check for an email cert when it is not performing email signing or encryption. -- Nelson B ___ dev

Re: How to add custom badCertHandler

2006-04-09 Thread Nelson B
validation will render your application completely vulnerable to various attacks, the very ones from which SSL (HTTPS) is intended to protect you. Why not use a valid cert from a known issuer? -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech

Re: Where's mozilla's official CA cert list?

2006-04-08 Thread Nelson B
, David! -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Adding Ciphers

2006-04-06 Thread Nelson B
be on autopilot. Jay -- Nelson B 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 0112233445566778 ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto

Re: SSL/TLS upgrades - RFC2817

2006-04-01 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
Rich Megginson wrote: Nelson B. Bolyard wrote: One more thing: http upgrade is EVIL. :-/ Why? And does that apply to LDAP upgrade as well? Because the recommended way to use TLS with LDAP is to use the startTLS extended operation on the unsecure port to upgrade the connection to TLS

Re: assertion failure in ssl3_config_match_init() when invoking ForceHandshake()

2006-03-30 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
. Given that your list of called NSS functions above didn't include the functions to configure the SSL socket with certs and keys, I'd guess you didn't do that, and so ssl3_config_match_init found no certs and keys for any cipher suites. One more thing: http upgrade is EVIL. :-/ -- Nelson B

Re: RNG Seeding + Interesting Crash in NSS startup

2006-03-22 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
Nelson B. Bolyard wrote: Among the system files, the best sources of entropy probably come from the files in Temporary Internet Files and the temp directories. I just noticed that I had been reading the code for WinCE, which is rather different from the general Windows code (Win95-WinXP

Re: RNG Seeding + Interesting Crash in NSS startup

2006-03-22 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
RFE for this is now https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331314 Contributions welcome in that RFE. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Where's mozilla's official CA cert list?

2006-03-22 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Frank, http://www.hecker.org/mozilla/ca-certificate-list says it's an unofficial working document. So, where's the official list of CA certs in mozilla? And where is the official list of certs not in mozilla (with reasons why)? Google showed lots of stuff about policies, and lots of irrelevant

Re: list replies? (was Re: Fwd: cacert.org)

2006-02-16 Thread Nelson B
Nelson B Bolyard wrote: Kyle Hamilton wrote: (I /hate/ that I have to click 'reply all' to reply to the original poster /and/ the list.) What would you propose instead? Having a Reply-To: header in each message that replies to the alias? or ? The particular MailMan list management

Re: Mozillas 1.5+ (NSS 3.10?) select wrong certificate for authentication

2006-02-13 Thread Nelson B
in the meantime, get an EKU extension if you can. -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: How to build the NSS cmds on Mac OS X?

2006-02-10 Thread Nelson B
into my build? Have a look at http://www.mozilla.org/build/distribution.html There you will find some text about configuring with --enable-crypto I think that does the trick. Note: followups directed to mozilla.dev.tech.crypto -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto

Re: pkcs11 default provider

2006-02-09 Thread Nelson B
module implement all the SSL-related PKCS#11 mechanisms? If not, it may be necessary to move keys from one module to another, which is typically quite costly (in terms of performance). -- Nelson B ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto

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