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 > https://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS_Shared_DB#Type_A mentioned as "simple > update". Only if NSS_InitWithMerge fails it does NSS_Initialize instead > to create the new db but that didn't happen. > >> I'm pretty sure that that function has not been tested for that purpose. >> Perhaps it needs to detect the case where the "target" DB does not >> already exist and handle it differently. > > As far as I can see https://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS_Shared_DB is unclear > about the fact if it can be used to create a db from scratch.
I can confirm that NSS_InitWithMerge doesn't create a working database here at least if none existed before. So it should either fail or handle that case in future versions. I'll try some more things. Wolfgang _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
