Re: Thunderbird crashing when C_SignInit returns other than CKR_OK

2010-12-19 Thread Nelson Bolyard
the heap allocation fail? You need to track down where the first error occurs. My first wild guess is that Matej's PKCS#11 module is doing something bad to the heap. My second one is that NSS or PSM is trying to free to the MOZCRT17 heap something that was allocated from another heap. -- /Nelson

Re: Thunderbird crashing when C_SignInit returns other than CKR_OK

2010-12-16 Thread Nelson Bolyard
to provide the symbols for your stack. Point your debugger's symbols client at http://symbols.mozilla.org/firefox -- /Nelson Bolyard -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: importing CAs into the certificate store

2010-11-24 Thread Nelson Bolyard
the certManager but that failed too. With what error message? What I need to know is how can this be achieved? How can I import a my TestCA into the profile cert databases so that I can use it by PK11_FindCertFromNickname function? Many thanks in advance. -- /Nelson Bolyard -- dev-tech-crypto

Re: NSS ss-sec.uncache is NULL

2010-11-24 Thread Nelson Bolyard
. -- /Nelson Bolyard -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Re: Using a 'secret' SSL client certificate from Mozilla

2010-08-28 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2010-08-27 16:48 PDT, Michael Smith wrote: We're not really looking for a couldn't be compromised solutions - this is a requirement from a company we're partnering with, not our idea, and they basically just want it to not be simple (for some value of that) to compromise. So: serialising

Re: PK11_CipherOp with RC4 and invalid memory access

2010-06-22 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2010-06-21 17:57 PDT, Brian Smith wrote: From arcfour.c: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/freebl/arcfour.c#390 My guess is that valgrind is considering malloc(5) to allocate 5 bytes, when really it allocates 8 bytes at least (because of alignment). I presume that

Re: clarification of CSR attributes in NSS

2010-06-17 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2010-06-17 05:58 PDT, John Dennis wrote: I'm in the process of adding CSR support to the NSS python binding and I'm not sure I fully follow how CSR attributes are handled so I'm looking for some clarification. Look at how certutil does it. That's best example we have right now. From

Re: What if a compelled CA scenario gets combined with Tor (The Onion Router)?

2010-05-19 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Kai To perform a successful MITM attack on a connection between a victim client and a victim server, the attacker must have two things: 1) one or more certificates that bear a public key whose corresponding private key is known to the attacker, and which certificates will be accepted by the

Re: Help

2010-04-15 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2010-04-14 19:18 PST, 虎 季 wrote: I am an engineer working in mozilla China, I'm going to provide a solution for Chinese banks which support IE only in China now. Welcome, 虎 季. Perhaps you can give us westerners some guidance on how to pronounce or transliterate your name in western

Re: some parts are unencrypted, but what parts?

2010-04-15 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2010-04-15 06:14 PST, Gervase Markham wrote: On 14/04/10 12:15, Developer wrote: Why I can not know what part of page is unencrypted? I see a warning of some parts are unencrypted, but what parts? There are bookmarklets and greasemonkey scripts which will search for and highlight the

Re: Certificate Patrol error (or malformed ssl certificate?)

2010-04-12 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2010-04-11 22:36 PST, Kurt Seifried wrote: Kurt, I suggest you try posting this again, without the image, but WITH the certificate that caused Certificate Patrol to complain. As it is, there's no information in this posting with which anyone can help you. That would be the PEM file I

Re: Certificate Patrol error (or malformed ssl certificate?)

2010-04-11 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2010-04-10 18:33 PST, Kurt Seifried wrote: So I logged in to a bank today and Certificate Patrol threw up a warning I haven't seen before (see attached image). Kurt, I suggest you try posting this again, without the image, but WITH the certificate that caused Certificate Patrol to complain.

Re: Alerts on TLS Renegotiation

2010-04-11 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2010-04-08 09:59 PST, Robert Relyea wrote: On 04/07/2010 09:35 PM, Nelson B Bolyard wrote: We plan on alerting users in a future update. This is fair warning to server operators and those who are debugging their sites. If this is a real threat don't users deserve a fair warning

Re: ocsp check problem: sec_error_bad_database

2010-03-17 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2010-03-16 22:04 PST, Kyle Hamilton wrote: Your profile's certificate and trust database appears to be corrupted, and therefore it can't check to see if the OCSP responder's certificate is okay. You'll need to quit Firefox, move the current key*.db, cert*.db, and secmod.db files out of

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: SSL handshake using NSS Vs using Openssl

2009-12-23 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-12-21 02:52 PST, Abhishek Rahirikar wrote: Hello Wan-Teh and All, I am now getting curiously confused with the problem. Another cipher I saw today which has similar issues. Tool using NSS fails to perform handshake with cipher SSL_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA. But Openssl is able to

Re: Does softoken/(NS)C_Sign conform PKCS#11?

2009-12-14 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-12-14 07:19 PST, Konstantin Andreev wrote: I have noticed that softoken's C_Sign() (and C_SignFinal too) terminates signing operation if called with too small output buffer

Re: How to log out of SDR?

2009-10-13 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Neil wrote: This is probably PSM again, Yes. but I hope someone here can answer it, or point me somewhere. We have a both menuitem and a dialog that logs you out of the SDR, so that you need to reenter your Master Password to gain access to your stored certificates and other encrypted

Re: SEC_ERROR_EXTENSION_NOT_FOUND

2009-10-13 Thread Nelson Bolyard
star_ni...@my-deja.com wrote: We are getting this error from a library. What library function? PR_Write? What NSS library version? How did you get this copy of NSS? As binaries directly from Mozilla? As binaries from from Linux distribution? (which one?) As sources? (where from? Have you

Re: some NSS_Initialize() questions

2009-09-14 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-09-12 17:33 PDT, Guenter wrote: [...] so I assume that: rv = NSS_Initialize(certDir, , , , NSS_INIT_READONLY); works also fine with pre-3.12.0, and there's no need to specify secmod.db as 4th argument, right? You only need to specify a non-empty string for the 4th argument if you

Re: some NSS_Initialize() questions

2009-09-12 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-09-12 09:23 PDT, Guenter wrote: Hi all, I've some questions regarding proper initializing NSS. From what I've read newer NSS now supports / prefers SQLite cert databases: Supports: yes Prefers: I would say no. NSS must be explicitly instructed to use the new SQLite3 databases in each

Re: PKCS#11 Module for TPM availiable

2009-09-11 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-09-11 13:12 , Klaus Heinrich Kiwi wrote: I don't know what it was, but now I can load opencryptoki as a PKCS#11 modules in my systems. I've tried with the software token, TPM token and the ICA token. Loaded the modules with modutil and generated key pairs/certificates/cert requests

Re: Rus GOST 89

2009-09-11 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-09-10 23:14 , nsk yatree wrote: Hi. Most likely I will not be the first person who asks such questions. I think you might well be the first to ask how to add GOST. Others have asked the NSS team to do it. You've asked how to do it yourself. That's a much better question. :) More

Re: XPCOM installation folders when using dependent DLLs?

2009-08-21 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-08-21 12:39 PDT, Neil wrote: Polly wrote: Neil wrote: Polly wrote: Tom, you asked what third party DLLs I'm using -- it's the openssl DLLs ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll. One possible alternative might be to rewrite your code to use NSS? Thanks for the suggestion. As it

Re: Cert extension decode issues

2009-08-21 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-08-20 07:27 PDT, Brendan wrote: I am having trouble decoding a custom extension that I created using Openssl. I have created the templates for nss but I am receiving a bad der error number from the decoder. As far as I can tell the der is correct and can be parsed by openssl commands

Re: NSPR4.1.2/NSS3.3.3 versus NSPR4.7/NSS3.12

2009-08-18 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-08-14 14:43 , VT wrote: I have an SSL server application and an SSL client on an Windows XP machine. The SSL server application seems to work perfectly in NSPR4.1.2/NSS3.3.2 but crashes in NSPR4.7/NSS3.12 (I did a build using MozillaBuild). 3.12.0 ? or 3.12.what? Did you build a

Re: Extrace Mozilla trusted certs into PEM files?

2009-08-06 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-08-06 03:47, Michael Ströder wrote: Eddy Nigg wrote: Quite a while ago, I read a message from someone saying he had devised, or was going to devise, a scheme to extract all of Mozilla's trusted root certs from NSS and make PEM files from them, and use them as trusted certs in some

Extrace Mozilla trusted certs into PEM files?

2009-08-05 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Hi all, Quite a while ago, I read a message from someone saying he had devised, or was going to devise, a scheme to extract all of Mozilla's trusted root certs from NSS and make PEM files from them, and use them as trusted certs in some other non-NSS-based product. Does anyone remember that? Can

Re: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.12.3.1 Release

2009-07-31 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-07-31 12:38 PDT, Ian G wrote: On 31/07/2009 11:29, William L. Hartzell wrote: Nelson B Bolyard wrote: Some lax CAs will evidently issue certs with just about anything in the DNS names. I'd pull the plug on them if I could find them, but the presenters at Black Hat were careful NOT to

Re: CRMF encoding issues with window.crypto.generatedCRMFRequest()

2009-07-23 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-07-22 06:09 PDT, nk wrote: Is there any way I can reproduce what you're seeing? I would probably require me to be able to access your CA server, and perhaps also to trust your root cert for the test. There is no CA server involved at this point. All I am doing is supplying a

Re: NSS, AIA, Bridge

2009-07-19 Thread Nelson Bolyard
I previously replied to this but my reply hasn't shown up here in the newsgroup, apparently, so ... On 2009-07-14 06:44 PDT, dmorford wrote: Is Firefox the program that you're trying to get to use AIAs and CDPs? Firefox does not do that yet, not even when it has NSS 3.12. Firefox 3 does not

Re: LDAP Client gets stuck in poll(..) when the Directory Server hangs

2009-07-13 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-07-13 05:00 PDT, denish patel wrote: Hi All, I have a simple LDAP Client that connects to a Directory Server (DS). However, when the DS hangs the program does not respond. It is able to connect properly when the DS is not in a hang state. Also when the DS has been stopped entirely,

Re: PK12UTIL not importing entire chain

2009-07-13 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-07-09 18:14 PDT, Michael Kaply wrote: I'm trying to figure out a different behavior I'm seeing today vs. NSS I was using about a year ago. Basically I have a code signing cert that contains a complete chain and my memory of importing a year ago (and looking at the DB files that I

Re: Moving browser PKI forward (Re: Problem reading certificate from hardware token)

2009-07-06 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-07-05 16:03 PDT, Ian G wrote: On 4/7/09 23:19, Nelson B Bolyard wrote: You provide customer support for Firefox? Yup. Doesn't everyone who is a techie? I mean, I don't want to, but because I am a techie, people assume that I know Firefox back to front and can make it do circus

Re: clarifications on TLS extension Certificate Status Request

2009-07-04 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-07-01 15:48 PDT, Nagendra Modadugu wrote: I'm asking for implementation requirements :-) Client behavior is straightforward, here are the outstanding questions about server behavior: Ah, OK, thanks for clarifying that. Should it be possible to statically configure an NSS server with

Re: S/MIME in Thunderbird

2009-07-04 Thread Nelson Bolyard
I wrote: If Microsoft has merely taken a DER-encoded object from another standard and has incorporated it into a cert extension, that seems fine to me. I hope they did it in such a way that existing BER/DER parsers of the sMIMECapabilities attribute can just parse the extension body directly.

Re: Full Listing of Included CAs

2009-06-24 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-06-22 15:10 PDT, Kyle Hamilton wrote: https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/c/ce/BuiltIn-CAs.pdf Am I correct in inferring that to the best of your knowledge, if a root does not have a bug number associated with it, it is a legacy root (one that was inherited from Netscape/AOL)? I don't

Re: KEYGEN tag - documentation

2009-06-01 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-06-01 06:31 PDT, Jan Schejbal wrote: I did of course google and I did find the site you linked, but it did not help me much, as I found no information what has to happen server-side (or links to such information). I understand that the key is generated, stored and a

Re: Finnish Population Register Root Inclusion Request

2009-05-29 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-05-28 14:02 PDT, Kyle Hamilton wrote: Nelson, a question for you: Which extendedKeyUsage OIDs are checked for each of the three trust bits? Is this part of PSM, or NSS? The answer is found in this web page: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tech-notes/tn3.html Since

Re: PR_Read fails second time on Solaris 8

2009-05-24 Thread Nelson Bolyard
VinuT wrote, On 2009-05-22 16:26 PDT: We are using NSPR/NSS for SSL communication on Solaris8. Right now, we are using it as a client to communicate to another SSL server running on windows. However my PR_Read call returns with 0, when its called a second time. The first calls succeeds and

Re: Roots that are identical except for signature algorithm and serial number

2009-05-21 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Eddy Nigg wrote, On 2009-05-21 15:15: On 05/21/2009 03:46 AM, Nelson Bolyard: Also related, in bug #490895 VeriSign has requested inclusion of the SHA-1 version of their roots to replace the corresponding old MD5 version of their roots. At the time of inclusion of the SHA-1 version

Re: Roots that are identical except for signature algorithm and serial number

2009-05-20 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-05-20 13:58, Kathleen Wilson wrote: When processing a cert chain, does Mozilla use a specified algorithm/ order for determining which root to use when there are two roots included that are identical except for signature algorithm and serial number? The algorithm for choosing from among

Re: Pending roots and EV enablements

2009-05-18 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Eddy Nigg wrote, On 2009-05-18 19:28 PDT: On 05/19/2009 05:15 AM, Nelson B Bolyard: Eddy Nigg wrote, On 2009-05-18 18:38 PDT: I'll create also the missing patch for Cybertrust and/or upon advise a mega patch of all EV enablements. Errr...please advise :-) Thanks Eddy. I see you've

Re: Hacking Firefox

2009-05-04 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-05-04 12:27, Andrews, Rick wrote: A customer asked this question, and I couldn't answer it. Let's say I'm a hacker with access to a public kiosk, and I want users of that kiosk to see the EV green toolbar when they use the kiosk to visit my hacked web site. My web site is configured

Re: How to export private key using pk12util

2009-04-26 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Arshad Noor wrote, On 2009-04-23 20:11: Nelson Bolyard wrote: The NSS team participated in the process of defining PKCS#12 precisely to avoid the security trap of exporting private keys in PKCS#8 format. Avoiding that trap is precisely why PKCS#12, and not PKCS#8, is THE only format

Re: StartCom EV-Enablement Request

2009-04-20 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Nelson Bolyard wrote, On 2009-04-19 22:54 PDT: ... and then into the depths of libPKIX. Time to get out the debugger, Even though I don't have a real test case, I did launch the debugger and watch it go into libPKIX. At this line http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/security

Re: Allocator mismatches

2009-04-05 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Neil wrote, On 2009-04-02 01:19: Nelson Bolyard wrote: If you have public redistributable header files that declare the MSVCRT memory guards, please send a pointer to them. Thanks. I can't actually find the documentation I originally read about it; this is the nearest that I get from

Re: Allocator mismatches

2009-04-01 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Benjamin Smedberg wrote, On 2009-03-31 08:35: On 3/30/09 5:34 PM, Nelson B Bolyard wrote: The problem is mixing DLLs that use standard VCRT with those that use Mozilla's modified VCRT. As long as there are bugs in the browser of the sort that Neil has found, developers of libraries upon

Re: Allocator mismatches

2009-03-31 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Neil wrote: Nelson B Bolyard wrote: I don't have a tool that makes it easy. All I did was piggy-back on a feature of the MSVC debug heap, Another feature of the professional package only, sadly. I use VC2005Express... Hmm. Perhaps it is the source code to the debug RTL that is only

Re: Allocator mismatches

2009-03-31 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: Nelson B Bolyard wrote: The problem is in the way that Mozilla builds JEMalloc for FF on Windows. They build a replacement for the Microsoft C RunTime Library. This replacement is a hybrid, built in part from JEMalloc source code, and in part from Microsoft's

Re: SV: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-11 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote, On 2009-03-10 04:55: Peter Lind Damkjær wrote: Varga Viktor wrote: snip OCSP request with multiple certificate from different CA -- The RFC has the possibility to send multiple certificate serial number into OCSP request. It is not defined that

Re: How to imoprt a p7c files into firefox?

2009-02-06 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Vidal Pascal wrote, On 2009-02-06 00:05: Hi, Include all the certificates which chain from the original end-user certificate into the PKCS7 file. Firefox should import them happily. Maybe. I agree with you, that's i've done. In fact, the problem is: EE certificate contains an AIA

Re: RSA Keygen problem

2009-01-21 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Jean-Daniel wrote to mozilla.dev.security on 2009-01-20 10:42 PST: Hello, I'm trying to generate a keypair using nss, but I encounter some issue. My key generation can take up to 30 seconds on a recent machine (Core 2 Duo 2.2 Ghz) (most generation take less the 10 seconds, and sometimes less

Re: OS dependence of mail cert profiles

2009-01-21 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Eddy Nigg wrote, On 2009-01-21 05:16: On 01/21/2009 03:10 PM, Michael Bell: Do you mean that all CA certificates must be present if the card is removed from the machine? If the CA certificates are on the card, there are some odd behaviors. Oh? Please tell us more.

Re: OS dependence of mail cert profiles

2009-01-21 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Michael Bell wrote, On 2009-01-21 04:12: Michael Bell wrote: I analysed the situation and discovered that the purpose of the cert on Windows is Client, sign, encrypt but the purpose on Linux is unknown. Can you see the actual contents of the cert itself inside FF's certificate manager

Re: OS dependence of mail cert profiles

2009-01-21 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Michael Bell wrote, On 2009-01-21 05:36: I think we or better I should stop here. OpenSC clearly announced that CardOS V4.3B is only supported if the card was created with OpenSC. So you were hundert percent right. It looks like only the error message is not fully correct. I read on an OpenSC

Re: Server Gated Cryptography

2009-01-20 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Gervase Markham wrote, On 2009-01-20 20:33: Nelson B Bolyard wrote: In Mozilla products, no roots have ever been SGC enabled. Some roots were, and still are, marked as trusted for SSL Step Up. Here's a list. Is the marking internal to or external to the cert? The fact that you say no certs

Re: Server Gated Cryptography

2009-01-19 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Gervase Markham wrote, On 2009-01-19 14:11: Does anyone know where I can find a definitive list of browsers for whom SGC is helpful? That is to say, a list of browsers for which, if I connected to a site with an SGC certificate, would provide a higher grade of encryption than if I connected to

Re: OCSP and privacy concerns

2009-01-15 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Michael Ströder wrote, On 2009-01-15 08:23: Johnathan Nightingale wrote: You may also be interested in the work on OCSP-stapling, so that no third party learns about your browsing, but you still get a CA-signed OCSP response. The CAs are interested in this too, since it takes the load

Re: NSS and PKCS#11 versions of modules

2008-12-09 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Robert Relyea wrote: Martin Paljak wrote: Thanks for tips! Could you point me to the line in spec where it says that slots can only be added. I cant find the place where it forbids removing. That's what I get for not checking the spec after the meeting in which we discussed this. The

Re: Creating a Global User-level CA/Trust Infrastructure for Secure Messaging

2008-12-04 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Ian, Previously in this thread, you wrote: For me, the purpose of this debate is finding out what users can expect from Mozilla by way of security. The answers to that quest probably include these properties: - open, openly specified, not secret, - inner workings subjected to public scrutiny.

Re: where does certutil put a cert's private keys?

2008-12-02 Thread Nelson Bolyard
fat.fuck wrote: first off: i am but a humble java programmer by trade; not a sysadmin; nor a network guy. so a lot of nss tool-related stuff is a foreign language to me. please, help a certutil rookie make sense of the world? Welcome. using openssl, i created a self-signed ca cert (and

Re: where does certutil put a cert's private keys?

2008-12-02 Thread Nelson Bolyard
ff wrote: i remembered what documentation instructed me to use $HOME/.netscape/ cert7.db. it was sun's Sun ONE Server Console 5.2 Server Management Guide. the chapter on Using SSL and TLS with Sun ONE Servers: http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6704-10/ssl.html#22531 Copy the Netscape

Re: Firefox' password manager with sqlite based NSS

2008-11-19 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: Wolfgang Rosenauer schrieb: Are you trying to use NSS_InitWithMerge to create a new cert9.DB where none existed before? Yes. NSS_InitWithMerge is used regardless of an existing cert9.db (and even cert8.db). The conversion function uses pretty much what is on

Web signing?

2008-11-19 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Eddy Nigg wrote: On 11/19/2008 05:52 PM, Anders Rundgren: In the meantime, wouldn't it be of some value if Mozilla tried to satisfy a PKI- related activity that in number of users, already is much bigger than S/MIME, i.e. the concept of Web Signing? What is this supposed to be? Perhaps I

Re: Firefox' password manager with sqlite based NSS

2008-11-18 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Robert Relyea wrote: Typically needsUserInit means there isn't a password record in your key database. Without this you can not store any keys. The difference between 'not initialized', 'doesn't have a master password', and 'has master a password' is as follows: 1) 'not initialized' ---

Re: Firefox' password manager with sqlite based NSS

2008-11-18 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: This was a new profile actually. And yes, the database which reveals this issue isn't complete it seems. I removed it and created a new empty one using certutil -d sql:. -N and now Firefox works correctly. It is possible that code that uses NSS in ways not tested by

Re: How-to guide for email encryption

2008-11-18 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Anders Rundgren wrote: IM[NS]HO, S/MIME encryption using PKI is one of the biggest security farces ever. Even the use-case is often wrong. Somebody representing e-Health once described for a big audience how S/MIME encryption could be used to exchange private medical information between a

Re: DNSSEC? Re: MITM in the wild

2008-11-10 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Anders Rundgren wrote: I haven't followed this lengthy discussion in detail but I have for a long time wondered how DNSSEC and SSL-CA-Certs should coexist. Which one will be the most authoritative? Could DNSSEC (if it finally succeeds) be the end of SSL-CA-certs? DNSSEC only attempts to

Re: Site Certificates in SeaMonkey

2008-11-06 Thread Nelson Bolyard
David E. Ross wrote, On 2008-11-05 16:10: I'm having a problem with a credit union's Web site (which prompted my other message IP Address Question in mozilla.support.seamonkey). Sometimes when I access the site's home page -- which is https -- everything is okay; a secure session is

Re: Help Signature Verification Error: !

2008-11-02 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Balaji Kamal Kannadassan wrote, On 2008-10-31 04:24 PDT: We have a valid certificate and I signed my jar file with the jarsigner when I open it using jar:!/prefstryjs.html I am getting below error. I ran out of options, please any help on the same would be great. Error: --

Re: EV Certs with SeaMonkey?

2008-11-01 Thread Nelson Bolyard
David E. Ross wrote, On 2008-11-01 11:16: One financial institution where I have an account changed to an EV cert two days ago. Does SeaMonkey 1.1.12 have the NSS to support EV certs? EV was a new feature of FF3. It relies on a new version of NSS, NSS 3.12 but most of the work to support EV

Re: Microtec CA inclusion request

2008-10-16 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Frank Hecker wrote: * OCSP. My understanding is that the Microsec practice of having a separate root for OCSP is very problematic, particularly given the inclusion of AIA extensions with OCSP URLs in end entity certificates. As I understand it, Microsec is removing AIA extensions with OCSP

Re: Deleting the client keystore or resetting the password

2008-10-03 Thread Nelson Bolyard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, On 2008-09-29 05:43: Hi there, I am trying to tie off an embedded browser using XulRunner 1.8/Firefox 2 with XPCOM. tie off. I like the birth metaphor. :) I have created a user keystore and can get a user to import a client side X.509 certificate from a PKCS12

Re: enabling crypto hardware for NSS

2008-09-24 Thread Nelson Bolyard
capricieuse wrote, On 2008-09-24 05:04: I am developing an application for signing Web Formular and i m using a UsbToken to get to the Private Key. I what that my application connecte from the server side to client side and load information from the Token to the server where the signature

Re: questions on root creation

2008-09-24 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Ian G wrote, On 2008-09-24 05:12: Nelson B Bolyard wrote: Ian G wrote: Nelson B Bolyard wrote: The curiosity here is that the Certificate Policies extension may not be shown prominently by software. As the point of the cert is to make some claim to the user, and the essence of that claim is

Extracting and/or documenting Firefox's trusted root certs

2008-08-19 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Previously I wrote that one can create a PEM file containing all of Mozilla's trusted roots with a simple shell script. One can get a simple text list of those root cert's nicknames. Here's a simple (?) shell script to do it. It uses NSS's certutil program. It first produces a text file

Trusted CA issuing SSL server certs with unvetted FQDNs!

2008-08-19 Thread Nelson Bolyard
In a Network World column, http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/31124 the author writes: At Black Hat ‘08 there was a great demonstration of how valid “internal testing only” FQDN certificates for URLs that you don’t control can be obtained by anyone asking. The one obtained by the

Re: Trusted CA issuing SSL server certs with unvetted FQDNs!

2008-08-19 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Wan-Teh Chang wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Nelson Bolyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a Network World column, http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/31124 the author writes: At Black Hat '08 there was a great demonstration of how valid internal testing only FQDN

Re: Verifying own client certificate firefox 2

2008-08-19 Thread Nelson Bolyard
F. wrote: Anyone test Firefox 2 with client certificate + OCSP flag and verification enabled? To me, internal error . I do not know if this is a bug. We need more info than that to be able to provide any meaningful reply. I gather that you viewed your cert using the certificate manager, and

Re: JSS´s SignerInfo crashes firefox 3.0. 1 and firefox 3 in Windows

2008-08-14 Thread Nelson Bolyard
fercufer wrote, On 2008-08-13 06:52: SignerInfo crashes firefox 3 in Windows. Below I put the code and the log files with Firefox 3.0.1 I have found a page about this bug. http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=ltforumId=1comments_parentId=86104 But there isn´t valid

Re: How I do find the client cert in browser of a cert-based mutually authenticated session?

2008-08-14 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Subrata Mazumdar wrote, On 2008-08-12 20:30: I have a certificate based mutually authenticated session between the browser and a web server. I would like to find out the certificate used presented by the browser using a programmatic API. I gather that you want to do this in the browser? Or

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-08-14 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Nelson Bolyard wrote, On 2008-08-12 22:59: I didn't understand that very well, but I _think_ you're saying that if adding a CA cert that trusted to issue client certs causes that CA to also be trusted to issue server certs, that would be bad. Indeed, that would be bad, and it definitely

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-08-13 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Howard Chu wrote, On 2008-08-12 19:12: That was the other point I was trying to make about global state... It's common practice to set up services with private CAs, so that random nosy clients cannot connect to them. In an OpenLDAP proxy installation you'll have one server cert/key and

Re: UTN-USERFirst-Object - Can't verify signature

2008-08-12 Thread Nelson Bolyard
bmo wrote, On 2008-08-12 11:41: I've posted a PNG of the chain of trust as reported by the browser to http://www.tryventi.com/certissue/onehub_cert.png That shows your cert to be valid. That's all that matters, with respect to your cert. You originally reported an error message that said:

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-08-12 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Julien R Pierre wrote on 2008-08-12 16:53 PDT: Robert Relyea wrote: SECMOD_OpenUserDB() will open new database slots in the internal database module. Unfortunately, those additional DBs can't be manipulated separately. huh? - key gens can be done in each one separately, - certs can be

Re: UTN-USERFirst-Object - Can't verify signature

2008-08-12 Thread Nelson Bolyard
bmo wrote, On 2008-08-12 19:36: I just pulled out a Windows Vista Machine -- with Firefox 2.0.15, and hit the page with our signed java applet on it -- SUCCESS -- I am provided a prompt that says the applet verified, do I want to run the code? I then installed FF 3.0.1 on the Vista machine.

Re: NSS documentation guidance request

2008-08-08 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Gordon.Young wrote, On 2008-08-07 10:07: the interesting thing is that even though the entire chain is passed during SSL handshake, Firefox does not find the issuer of the EE issuing CA's certificate. on this test server we are sending EE CertIssuing CACross certificateGTE Root. It looks

Re: RSA OAEP encryption support in NSS

2008-08-04 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Nelson Bolyard wrote, On 2008-08-03 21:05: David Allan wrote, On 2008-08-02 19:43: would you like me to file a bug against that? Yes, please. You can put this text into the bug report, if you'd like. I filed this bug about the issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449087

Re: RSA OAEP encryption support in NSS

2008-08-03 Thread Nelson Bolyard
David Allan wrote, On 2008-08-02 19:43: PK11_PubWrapSymKey(CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP, RSAPublicKey, UnwrappedKey, WrappedKey); I'd guess that call failed, right? Or are you using some third party PKCS#11 module that implements it? NSS's

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-07-26 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Daniel Stenberg wrote, On 2008-07-26 13:45: As a user of OpenSSL, NSS, yassl and GnuTLS I can certainly agree that GnuTLS has flaws in its API but NSS most certainly also has flaws as well _and_ notable missing features that GnuTLS offers. Daniel, please tell us what features are missing that

Re: enabling crypto hardware for NSS

2008-07-22 Thread Nelson Bolyard
David Sadler wrote: I am trying to enable crypto hardware support on an IBM z/Series system running Linux. Is this IBM linux? Red Hat Linux? or ? (I ask because I know that Red Hat Linux supports mod_nss in Apache, but I was not aware that it was also being used in any IBM Linux. That

Re: Failed to toggle FIPS mode with JSS

2008-07-22 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Wan-Teh Chang wrote: NSS doesn't allow importing or exporting of *unencrypted* secret or private keys in FIPS mode. This is not an issue for SSL because the incoming premaster secret from the *client* is encrypted with the server's RSA public key. If you really have to import an

Re: Firefox crash issue

2008-07-21 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Ruchi Lohani wrote, On 2008-07-21 11:53: Was just wondering whether there is a bug number in the mozilla bugs for this issue - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/108929 I am continuously getting the same crash on firefox with the following trace - #1 0xb7f0de38 in

Re: EV issues with redirects...

2008-07-03 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Kyle Hamilton wrote, On 2008-07-03 19:51: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ssrreturn=http%3A%2F%2Fpaypal-cgi-bin.s6.pl/?cgi-bin.webscrcmd=_login-run.webscrcmd=_account-run.DisputeTransactionID.2LC956793J776333Y This is a valid PayPal URL that issues a redirect to an

Re: Firefox 3 connection now results in ssl_error_bad_cert_domain

2008-07-02 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Robert Relyea wrote, On 2008-07-02 14:03: Bruce Keats wrote: Hi, I started using firefox 3 and I am now getting errors connecting to intra-net sites that were OK in firefox 2. We have our own intra-net and we have a CA that issues server certs and user certs. I have loaded the CA

questionable CA practices: CA's generating users' private keys

2008-06-30 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Someone has recently suggested to me that one of the CAs now included in Mozilla's list of trusted root CAs actually has the practice of generating key pairs (including the private key) for their subscribers and delivering the private key and associated cert chain to the subscriber in a PKCS12

Re: questionable CA practices: CA's generating users' private keys

2008-06-30 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Gervase Markham wrote, On 2008-06-30 04:59: Nelson Bolyard wrote: Do we really want to allow this? Should this at least be a question that CAs must answer as they apply for cert inclusion or EV status upgrades? At a minimum, please add it to the Questionable CA practices document

Re: make sure upgraded users get new cert8.db

2008-06-29 Thread Nelson Bolyard
I wrote: 2. Mozilla's trademark policy says that if you change certain things about Mozilla in your own build or packages, then you cannot release your build using Mozilla trademarks (e.g. the Firefox brand name). The set of trusted root CA certs is one of those things, I believe. See

Live CRLs with Issuing Distribution Point extensions?

2008-06-28 Thread Nelson Bolyard
I'm working on some code to handle the Issuing Distribution Point extension in CRLs. Before I commit it, I'd like to test it with some live CRLs from real CAs, CRLs that have that extension. Trouble is, I haven't been able to find any live CRLs that have that extension. Anybody know of a CA

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