multiple certificate selection dailogs

2010-05-19 Thread Šandor Feldi
Hello everybody, I am developing a PKCS11 module, and when testing it in Firefox (3.6.3 for eg.), despite selecting remember selected certificate I do get multiple certificate selection dialogs in sequence at SSL session start...so I have to reselect the same cert, say twice... I enter the

Re: multiple certificate selection dailogs

2010-05-19 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Šandor Feldi wrote: I do get multiple certificate selection dialogs in sequence at SSL session start...so I have to reselect the same cert, say twice... I enter the https of the target site, I get asked about the cert - I select it, then the site displays my info and offers me anenter site

Re: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users by Cormac Herley

2010-05-19 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Eddy Nigg wrote: Isn't this actually a sign that the technology works? I mean, 100% false positives means literally 100% success. Shit no ! The higher the false positive rate, the more acute the failure. People will trust and respect the warning *only* if there's a very low rate of false

RE: multiple certificate selection dailogs

2010-05-19 Thread Šandor Feldi
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: The web site is also something you develop ? Thanks for answering. No I do not develop the site and don't have any way to access or configure apache, and it happens on different sites too... I forgot to point out, that when importing a certificate into Firefox's NSS

Re: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users by Cormac Herley

2010-05-19 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Marsh Ray wrote: What do you propose other than not letting the user bypass the cert error page at all? Investing some serious time enhancing those errors. Or investing some serious time evangelising the SSL site owners into using a real certificate. But the statu quo doesn't work.

Re: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users by Cormac Herley

2010-05-19 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 05/19/2010 01:30 PM, From Jean-Marc Desperrier: Eddy Nigg wrote: Isn't this actually a sign that the technology works? I mean, 100% false positives means literally 100% success. Shit no ! The higher the false positive rate, the more acute the failure. Well, just for the record, lets get

Re: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users by Cormac Herley

2010-05-19 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 05/19/2010 05:37 PM, From Jean-Marc Desperrier: Or investing some serious time evangelising the SSL site owners into using a real certificate. But the statu quo doesn't work. Amen! And you know what - today there is NO reason whatsoever not to get real certs, they are available from

nss build : nspr problem

2010-05-19 Thread ago secu
hi, I'm trying to build nss but i have some problems with nspr build. When creating libnspr4.lib library, it raises symbol not found for a lot of __PR_ declarations. Does anyone have encountered that problem ? Toki -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org

Re: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users by Cormac Herley

2010-05-19 Thread Marsh Ray
On 5/19/2010 10:32 AM, Eddy Nigg wrote: On 05/19/2010 05:37 PM, From Jean-Marc Desperrier: Or investing some serious time evangelising the SSL site owners into using a real certificate. But the statu quo doesn't work. Amen! And you know what - today there is NO reason whatsoever not to

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

2010-05-19 Thread Kai Engert
Today I read some technical documents at http://www.torproject.org which is a project that tries to enhance anonymity of Internet users, or allow Internet users to circumvent censorship. With Tor, your outgoing connections will be routed (using encryption) to a chain of random Tor servers,

Re: multiple certificate selection dailogs

2010-05-19 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
On 2010-05-19 03:40 PDT, Šandor Feldi wrote: Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: The web site is also something you develop ? Thanks for answering. No I do not develop the site and don't have any way to access or configure apache, and it happens on different sites too... I forgot to point out, that

automatically deleting expired certificates..

2010-05-19 Thread Bud P. Bruegger
Hello, I would like to ask your advice on how to best deal with a problem related to deleting certificates/keys. I'm currently experimenting with creating short-lived certificates for TLS-client-authentication using the keygen element. While it seems easy to create the keys/certs, I have more

Re: automatically deleting expired certificates..

2010-05-19 Thread Robert Relyea
On 05/19/2010 02:51 PM, Bud P. Bruegger wrote: Hello, I would like to ask your advice on how to best deal with a problem related to deleting certificates/keys. I'm currently experimenting with creating short-lived certificates for TLS-client-authentication using the keygen element. While it

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