The current certdata.txt in the repository is not the one that
generated your version of Firefox.  (There have been a couple of
changes in the past couple of months, and no client releases.)

-Kyle H

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Daniel Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Wan-Teh Chang wrote:
>
>>> certutil: function failed: security library: bad database.
>>
>> 'DB' is the directory that contains your NSS databases.
>
> Thanks for that and sorry for not doing my home work properly.
>
> This turns out to generate a rather interesting list. Using my currently
> installed db set I get 126 names, but the certdata.txt file in the Mozilla CVS
> repo ( $Revision: 1.45 $ $Date: 2008/01/17 ) contains 124 (using "make
> ca-bundle" in the curl build tree).
>
> Diffing the list of names show my db contains 3 more names and one less than
> certdata.txt.
>
> Is this a bug in our source to PEM script, or what does it mean? I would
> expect the two lists to be identical, or is that just another bad assumption
> on my part? Are we using the wrong certdata.txt file?
>
> The file our script downloads and converts to PEM is this:
>
> The certdata.txt is downloaded from here:
>
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/security/nss/lib/ckfw/builtins/certdata.txt?raw=1
>
> The conversion script uses the openssl tool and is found here:
>
> http://curl.haxx.se/lxr/source/lib/mk-ca-bundle.pl
>
> --
>
>  / daniel.haxx.se
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