Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: > That's correct, however most of the potential users of Mozilla software > don't know Turkish nor the Turkish letters and the question really is, > how this should be handled from the point of view of Mozilla. What if > tomorrow a CA from -Insert Country Here- issues certificates in Russian, > Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese etc letters...? Frank, this one is for > you...
Since you asked me to comment... First, is this question about names included in end entity certificates? (For example, a CA issuing an SSL server certificate to an organization, and having the organization's name within the certificate being in Turkish, or Hebrew, or Chinese, or whatever.) If so, this issue seems (at least to me) to be related to the issue of internationalized domain names (IDN). IIRC we already support display and entry of domain names in, e.g., Chinese, Hebrew, etc. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Internationalized_Domain_Names_(IDN)_Support_in_Mozilla_Browsers Given that, why should we object to CAs putting Chinese, etc., names in end entity certificates, as long as there is an appropriate technical mechanism to make this work? A lot of the CAs we deal with now are country-specific CAs whose businesses is very focused on the country in which they're located. They will probably issue most if not all of their certificates to organizations and individuals in their home country, and those certificates will probably be seen primarily by users in those countries. Since most of those users won't speak English, it makes sense for domain names, names in certificates, and so on, to be in their native language and the associated character set. Frank -- Frank Hecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
