abhishek wrote: > i am trying to work with mozilla NSS 3_10 binaries for Linux 2.4 version. > My linux kernel is- > Linux ubuntu 2.6.12-10-386 #1 Sat Mar 11 16:13:17 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux > NSS 3_10 does not seem to have a version for Linux 2.6.
NSS tries to build a set of binaries that covers as many releases of an OS as possible. > i was using the tool cmsutil to encrypt a plaintext file. i used the > following command- > ./cmsutil -C -i plaintext -o enctext -p abcdefg > > i got the error - > "cmsutil: NSS_Init failed: An I/O error occurred during security > authorization." > > does anyone know why this happens? This error message usually means that the attempt to read the user's password (the one that protects the user's key DB) from the user (e.g. from the user's tty, or from the file named by the user, etc.) failed with some sort of error. In some circumstances, it may simply mean that no password was given. Now in this case, given that you've given a password on the command line, maybe it means the password was the wrong password. Considering that you're trying to generate an encrypted message, and that encryption generally does not require a password (because it doesn't use a private key), I'm not sure why you've getting this error. What happens if you try without the -p option and its argument? In any case, I doubt that this error is caused by any kernel version mismatch. -- Nelson B _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
