Reassessment of sub-ordinated CA certificates

2008-02-10 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
During the last few month many issues concerning sub-ordinated CA certificates of CAs, considered for inclusion and CAs already included in NSS, have come up at this forum. Today exists a situation where the Mozilla CA policy doesn't provide enough guiding and definition, because the policy

Re: Extract of CA certificates

2008-02-10 Thread Frank Hecker
Gervase Markham wrote: I think the correct position is that the certdata.txt file is data used by Mozilla, rather than part of the browser itself. Speaking personally, I agree with this interpretation, for what it's worth (not much, because IANAL). The copyright in the certificates

Re: Extract of CA certificates

2008-02-10 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Gervase Markham wrote, On 2008-02-09 02:35: Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: Since sometimes there are some licensing concerns with the certdata.txt file, I wanted to know exactly what one is allowed to do. If for example by merely extracting the CA certificates with a tool like