Tom wrote:

>
> My question is how Netscape 6.2.* handles this kind of stuff. At first sight
> Netscape 6.2.1 passes the test: I have imported a self generated client
> certificate into Netscape 6.2.1 and use it to visit my test-webserver which
> requires both server and client authentication. After that, my
> PhysicalMemoryScanner doesn't seem to find the private key. So I would like
> to ask you all if special care was taken to avoid that the private key shows
> up plain-text in memory ?


Yes.  NSS (the crypto libraries used in Netscape 6.2.*) keeps its
private keys "wrapped" (encrypted) until actually needed.

Wan-Teh




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