nade "Ronald" Lu wrote, On 2007-12-08 15:45: > i want to use one of the NSS security tools, certutil, in order to manage > the certificate database(cert8.db). I visited your webpage, however I got a > little bit confused. I have downloaded nss-3.11.4-with-nspr-4.6.4.tar.gz > from > https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_11_4_RTM > /src/ > > is that enough? And how should I build the NSS release. I have read the > instruction but did not understand much. I am using windows xp. Can you give > some more clear build instructions? Do I have to download mozillaBuild? > These questions might sound stupid to you. But I would appreciate some > useful advice. Thank you very much!
Ronald, Since you're just starting to use NSS, I suggest that you not start by trying to build it yourself, but rather start by using a pre-built copy for windows. You can download a pre-built copy of the NSS binaries from <ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_11_4_RTM/msvc6.0/WIN954.0_OPT.OBJ/nss-3.11.4.zip> You will also need the NSPR binaries, which you can download from <ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/nspr/releases/v4.6.4/msvc6.0/WIN954.0_OPT.OBJ/nspr-4.6.4.zip> Each of those two zip files contains 3 directories: bin, include, and lib. So after unzipping both you will have two bin, two include and two lib directories. The simplest thing to do, I think, is to delete the include directories, and then combine all the files from the two bin and two lib directories into a single directory. Then you can run any of the .exe programs in that combined directory. You will find some documentation for those programs in this web page: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/index.html While you are familiarizing yourself with these tools, I suggest that you should not operate directly on the files used by FireFox or ThunderBird, but instead, make a directory and copy the *.db files from your FireFox profile (or Thunderbird profile) into that directory, and then use the NSS tools to operate on the copy in that directory. Most of the NSS command tools take a command line option of the form "-d directory" by which you can tell them which directory to use for the DB files. The *.db files in the FireFox or ThunderBird profile must not be used or copied while FireFox or Thunderbird are running. So, be sure to exit FireFox and ThunderBird completely first, and then copy the files. Good luck. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
