Steve Ball wrote:
I would like to be able to suggest an alternative open PKI system that
would work accross browsers and operating systems, but I do not know
enough about the options to make an informed suggestion.
It is hard to answer this question without knowing what the security
The feature being requested is not a security measure, it is security
snake oil. This is precisely the sort of misfeature that, when broken,
causes a lot of bad press for a product.
S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Bug 59499 reports a problem where clicking on links leading to pop-up
windows causes the lock icon to switch to the broken state. This is
because clicking on the link causes a
nsIWebProgressListener::OnStateChange() notifications to be sent. The
notifications report a javascript: url.
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