Nelson B. Bolyard (At Home) wrote:
> Jeff Wollschleager wrote:
>
>> Know next to nothing about crypto, have looked at some of info on
>> Mozilla.org pages about PSM & NSS and I'm having a hard time
>> understanding what the heck is going on. My big question would be-Why
>> does PSM require internet access to view secure web sites? (run a
>> firewall and unable to access secure sites without PSM having access).
>
>
> I'll guess you're running the ZoneAlarm product on a PC, yes?
>
>> How exactly do Mozilla & PSM interact together? Where does NSS fit in?
>> Could go on & on but I probably have already worn out my welcome. Any
>> info would be appreciated or a pointer to some good plain english
>> info.Thanks.
>
>
> PSM acts as a proxy server, sitting right on your PC. So, it has to have
> permission to act as a server, but only for your "local" zone, and your
> local zone must include your loopback address (e.g. 127.0.0.1).
>
> NSS is a library used inside of PSM.
>
> Please continue to post all followup questions to this newsgroup, thanks.
> --
> Nelson Bolyard (at home) Speaking only for myself.
Thanks for the reply. Yes on the Zone Alarm. This brings up another
question though: I have given PSM internet permissions but not server
permissions and it seems to working fine but slow. I'm going to try and
connect to some secure sites changing it to access for local zone but
not internet w/server permissions in the local zone. Will let you know
the outcome, thanks again.
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