Jeff Wollschleager wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Still needs internet access but not server permission but much clearer
on how it works (acting as a proxy). Tend to get paranoid when any
application asks for internet access when I'm not sure why. Looking
foward to the PIP 2.0
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