Anders Rundgren wrote, On 2008-08-23 01:21: > I have decided to give FF crypto programming a try. > I have a few initial questions that this list hopefully knows about. > Pointers to the associated rather difficult-to-find Mozilla docs > would be much appreciated. > > Q1. Does the built-in soft token provider offer the ability to > programmatically set an initial PIN-code for a key?
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for here, but if you're asking about separate PINs for each (private) key, the answer is: no. Mozilla's PKCS#11 softoken follows the original PKCS#11 "token" model, where there is one authentication action that covers the entire contents of the "token", and once authenticated to the token, one has access to all the keys in that token. It does not support separate PINs for each key. > Q2. Can you perform crypto operations with the soft-token > provider using XPCOM and JavaScript? This is a question about PSM, the FF code that interfaces FF to the NSS crypto libraries and provides the "scriptable" interfaces that are accessible from Java. Unfortunately, this mailing list doesn't get much participation from the folks who really know PSM. I'm not a PSM expert, but I'll try to give you a few pointers. All of PSM's scriptable interfaces are defined in ".idl" files. Those files contain comments about the methods they declare. AFAIK, that is the only documentation for PSM's interfaces. (I'd be happy to be proven wrong about that! :) Most of PSM's .idl files can be found here: <http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/find?text=&kind=text&string=.idl> But there are a few more not in that group, such as those seen here: <http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/search?string=crypt&find=netwerk/base/public/.*idl> There are probably others, but I don't have a list or a URL for them. Not all of those interfaces are "public", but presumably the ones in the "public" directory all are. I hope this helps some. Sorry I can't help more with the PSM stuff. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
