Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-24 Thread Daniel Holbert
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: This is something that I've seen also, and it makes me worried that the current Fx solution *doesn't* really work as advertised. The people see the warning, and the next minute, they start IE to access the site. Think about it : Instead of protecting them, Fx

Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-24 Thread Thorsten Becker
Nelson B Bolyard schrieb: I think the solution that Jean-Marc outlined above would make some sense: It would make it a bit easier to visit certain sites, but disturb permanently if someone visits a site that has no trust anchor in firefox. There's a great deal of evidence, and consensus

Re: question about certificate chain from https://suppliers.intel.com

2008-07-24 Thread Eddy Nigg
Nelson B Bolyard: Only if the server cert is from a CA that follows a reasonable CP/CPS. Obviously... The case of concern is the server with a self-signed cert, or cert from an unknown CA, that has an AIA extension that points to a tracking host of some sort. The chain won't validate (the

RE: Failed to toggle FIPS mode with JSS

2008-07-24 Thread David Stutzman
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la.org] On Behalf Of Dean Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:09 PM To: dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: Failed to toggle FIPS mode with JSS Essentially I have an SSL implementation that I want to

Re: adding and removing certificate while FF3 is running?

2008-07-24 Thread joshuaaa
On Jul 23, 11:15 pm, Nelson B Bolyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: joshuaaa wrote, On 2008-07-23 20:30: Sorry for the confusion. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone can shed some light on this subject. I've spent plenty of hours researching and haven't come up with anything promising.

Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-24 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Thorsten Becker wrote: Nelson B Bolyard schrieb: I think the solution that Jean-Marc outlined above would make some sense: It would make it a bit easier to visit certain sites, but disturb permanently if someone visits a site that has no trust anchor in firefox. There's a great deal of

question about ECC

2008-07-24 Thread ZhanLeo
I'm building Firefox 2, and I find it support ECC. Could I only limit the ECC key lengths to 128bits or remove ECC support on FireFox 2? If yes, how can I change build scripts? Thanks, Leo _ MSN史诗巨片横空出世,精彩抢先看!

Re: Wells Fargo CA inclusion/EV request

2008-07-24 Thread Frank Hecker
Eddy Nigg wrote: Frank, I'd like to know (again) what our policy is in regards of EV audit requirements. As I understand from the bug report, Wells Fargo didn't actually absolved the EV audit, but some EV readiness audit. I think we are past the time where we'd accept such audits? A quick

Re: question about certificate chain from https://suppliers.intel.com

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Eddy Nigg wrote, On 2008-07-24 01:15: Nelson B Bolyard: I believe that, within the Mozilla developer community, there is a widely held misconception that NSS=PSM and the NSS team is the PSM team. But that's really not correct. Most of the NSS developers are paid to work on NSS but not on

Re: question about certificate chain from https://suppliers.intel.com

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote, On 2008-07-24 05:37: For exemple about the shareable database, your response late in February about that was that there was still a lot left to do for it, In NSS, yes. That work was completed, as planned. and that you didn't see the point unless both Fx and Tb

Re: question about certificate chain from https://suppliers.intel.com

2008-07-24 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Jean-Marc Desperrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For exemple about the shareable database, your response late in February about that was that there was still a lot left to do for it, and that you didn't see the point unless both Fx and Tb had it and it could be

Re: adding and removing certificate while FF3 is running?

2008-07-24 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Jean-Marc Desperrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nelson B Bolyard wrote: [...] For applications like FF3 that use NSS 3.12, which type of DB is used is under the control of the application. FF3 does not make use of the SQLite3 DBs (even though that capability was

Firefox and ECC TLS ciphersuites

2008-07-24 Thread mozilla
I'm trying to do TLS using an ECC ciphersuite. I thought FF3 natively supported it (ECC ciphersuites are enabled in about:config). Using normal downloads of FF3 on either Linux or Windows I'm getting the error that there's no common ciphersuite. Looking at SSLTap, both versions of FF3 browser

Re: question about ECC

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
ZhanLeo wrote, on 2008-07-24 07:45 PDT: I'm building Firefox 2, and I find it support ECC. I gather that this project has begun relatively recently, and so I wonder why you're building Firefox 2 instead of Firefox 3. Could I only limit the ECC key lengths to 128bits Such a change could be

Re: Firefox and ECC TLS ciphersuites

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Bill Price wrote, On 2008-07-24 15:17: I'm trying to do TLS using an ECC ciphersuite. I thought FF3 natively supported it (ECC ciphersuites are enabled in about:config). Using normal downloads of FF3 on either Linux or Windows I'm getting the error that there's no common ciphersuite.

Re: Firefox and ECC TLS ciphersuites

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Bill Price wrote, On 2008-07-24 15:17 PDT: I'm trying to do TLS using an ECC ciphersuite. I thought FF3 natively supported it (ECC ciphersuites are enabled in about:config). Using normal downloads of FF3 on either Linux or Windows I'm getting the error that there's no common ciphersuite.

Re: adding and removing certificate while FF3 is running?

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
joshuaaa wrote, On 2008-07-24 06:56: This is part of a project to increase security here at work. To be honest, I'm not completely sure of all the details. I've just been asked to add/remove user certificates while the browser is running. User certificates? Certificates for which the user

Re: adding and removing certificate while FF3 is running?

2008-07-24 Thread joshuaaa
On Jul 24, 5:09 pm, Nelson B Bolyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: joshuaaa wrote, On 2008-07-24 06:56: This is part of a project to increase security here at work. To be honest, I'm not completely sure of all the details. I've just been asked to add/remove user certificates while the browser

Re: question about certificate chain from https://suppliers.intel.com

2008-07-24 Thread Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems
Edy, Eddy Nigg wrote: Neither Apache not IIS do that AFAIK. I believe the Netscape/iPlanet/Sun web server does at least log a warning when the server comes up if the cert cannot be verified, for example, because of a missing intermediate. However, if the intermediate cert was installed,

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Daniel Stenberg wrote, On 2008-07-23 14:43: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Ruchi Lohani wrote: Since a lot of open source softwares are using NSS, I wish to know whether we have some documentation on specifics of OpenSSL and NSS and the advantages NSS has over OpenSSL. If so, can anybody direct me

Re: Firefox and ECC TLS ciphersuites

2008-07-24 Thread bp
See responses in line below. Nelson B Bolyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Price wrote, On 2008-07-24 15:17 PDT: I'm trying to do TLS using an ECC ciphersuite. I thought FF3 natively supported it (ECC ciphersuites are enabled in about:config). Using normal