Re: 2005 - The Year of the Snail

2004-12-09 Thread David Stutzman
Ian Grigg wrote: snip It's really easy to offer a solution: download Firefox, and buy a Mac. But this is like asking a snail to become a hedgehog; it is simply out of the budget of way too many users to rush out and buy a Mac. Those that can do so, do so! snip I'm probably going to regret

Re: Accessing Certificate Store of Mozilla

2004-12-09 Thread David Stutzman
Atta Ullah wrote: How can I access the certificate store of Mozilla or netscape navigator to checkout the imported certificates in the certificate store. either using ssn or any other APIs. Atta In a word, certutil: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/certutil.html Example usage

Re: 2005 - The Year of the Snail

2004-12-09 Thread Ian Grigg
Ian Grigg wrote: snip It's really easy to offer a solution: download Firefox, and buy a Mac. But this is like asking a snail to become a hedgehog; it is simply out of the budget of way too many users to rush out and buy a Mac. Those that can do so, do so! snip I'm probably going to

Re: 2005 - The Year of the Snail

2004-12-09 Thread David Stutzman
Ian Grigg wrote: I'll try and appeal to your regret ;) Awww...that wasn't so bad. You'll have to try harder next time. I can see your point to some extent. There's also the You'd be amazed what people will do to save a dollar factor though and for the vast majority of people that just browse

Re: 2005 - The Year of the Snail

2004-12-09 Thread Ian Grigg
I can see your point to some extent. There's also the You'd be amazed what people will do to save a dollar factor though and for the vast majority of people that just browse and do email a recent linux distribution (with some MINOR tech support from son/daughter/friend/etc) would be able to

Re: 2004 - The Year of the Phish

2004-12-09 Thread Ian Grigg
Hi Nelson! 1. The reason there is a strong dominating player at the moment is because there is no way to compete. But the reason there's no way to compete is due to whose root certs are in the main browsers, not any other reason like branding or lack of it. What are you guys smoking?