Paul Hoffman wrote, On 2008-07-18 20:00:

>> 2. Import that root CA cert.
> 
> .... restart FF (at least 3)...

should not be necessary.  Might be necessary to see the cert in the UI,
due to possible UI issues, but is not required in NSS.

>> I hope you trust the ECC implementation in NSS.
> 
> I do, but not unconditionally. If Comodo had used NSS to create the 
> cert, there could have been an error that you did not detect. I am 
> much happier that it verifies on both Firefox and IE because they use 
> different ECC libraries.

The ECC code is FIPS validated, for what it's worth.
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