Re: How to export private key using pk12util

2009-04-26 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Arshad Noor wrote, On 2009-04-23 20:11: Nelson Bolyard wrote: The NSS team participated in the process of defining PKCS#12 precisely to avoid the security trap of exporting private keys in PKCS#8 format. Avoiding that trap is precisely why PKCS#12, and not PKCS#8, is THE only format for

Re: How to export private key using pk12util

2009-04-26 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
I wrote: The message to users was (and still is), if you want to export your private key, PKCS#11 is the answer. er. make that #12. Unlike PKCS#8, which for a long time (and maybe still today) implied unencrypted storage of private keys, PKCS#12 has been associated with encrypted storage of

NSS source building

2009-04-26 Thread ksreedhar74
Hello, I am using JSS 4.2.5, NSS 3.11.4, NSPR 4.6.4. If I use the binaries downloaded from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_11_4_RTM/Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_DBG.OBJ/ and