FIPS mode key import?

2020-06-01 Thread Chris Newman
I have NSS-based DKIM signing working in our mail server software, but run into a problem when trying to do it in FIPS mode. I've been importing the DKIM private key using either PK11_ImportPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey or PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey, but these APIs don't work in FI

Email notice about NSS CVEs, such as CVE-2017-7805

2017-10-13 Thread Chris Newman
Is there a mailing list I can subscribe to where notice is posted about NSS CVEs such as CVE-2017-7805? This information used to be in NSS release notes, which was helpful to know when a new release was important to pick up promptly, but it hasn't been for more recent CVEs like this one and CV

Re: -Werror vs. NetBSD

2016-02-04 Thread Chris Newman
Why not just add -std=gnu99 to the gcc switches so the code can at least use the 16-year old version of the C standard? - Chris On February 3, 2016 at 17:59:14 , Martin Thomson (m...@mozilla.com) wrote: Yes, the landing of the first patches for TLS 1.3 was a bit messy. We are w

Re: Updates to the Server Side TLS guide

2014-10-21 Thread Chris Newman
--On October 20, 2014 16:43:01 -0700 Julien Pierre wrote: > Hubert, > > On 10/20/2014 05:10, Hubert Kario wrote: >> So I went over the https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS >> article with a bit more attention to detail and I think we should >> extend it in few places. >> >> Especial

Re: certutil - iPaddress SubjectAltName extension

2014-07-16 Thread Chris Newman
--On July 16, 2014 17:32:22 +0200 Kai Engert wrote: > On Mon, 2014-07-14 at 23:38 +0200, Bernhard Thalmayr wrote: >> Is there any documentation available for '--extSAN' parameter? Mr. >> Google did not find any helpful resource. > > Look at the help output that certutil produces with the -H com

Re: Proposal to Remove legacy TLS Ciphersuits Offered by Firefox

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Newman
As a non-Firefox/non-HTTP consumer of NSS, I'd like to see an NSS API flag indicating a cipher suite is retained for backwards compatibility but considered inferior by cryptographic community standards at the time the NSS library was built. A. is unacceptable because it breaks copy/paste of UR

Re: Introductions - want to contribute to NSS developer friendliness

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Newman
--On June 17, 2013 10:23:52 -0400 Miloslav Trmač wrote: me and Milan Bartoš plan to spend some time working on making NSS easier to develop for - to make sure there is easy to find documentation, the applications don't need unnecessary boilerplate code, and so on. The current list of items we'l

Re: NSS 3.14 release

2012-10-26 Thread Chris Newman
NSS component in bugzilla. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=component_watch for how you can subscribe to a feed of all NSS bug discussions. Thanks, I subscribed. Chris Newman wrote: Will vulnerability fixes can be provided on the NSS 3.13.x patch train? And if so, is there a date w

Re: NSS 3.14 release

2012-10-25 Thread Chris Newman
--On October 24, 2012 22:19:40 -0700 Julien Pierre wrote: 2) - The NSS license has changed to MPL 2.0. Previous releases were released under a MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 tri-license. For more information about MPL 2.0, please see http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/FAQ.html. For an additional explanta