I must apologise for wasting your time with something that was not really an issue. When you asked about whether I had downloaded the mozilla sources or used my distributor's (gentoo) I was about to answer that I downloaded the sources from mozilla.org and built NSS from there, but this prompted me to check whether gentoo had this in their package list to emerge. What I found was that they had 3.11, and it was already installed on the same machine. I was using the correct binary (3.12) but the wrong libraries (3.11). Is this maybe the same case with David Sadler?
Again, many thanks for your help with my problem. Best Regards, Johan On Sep 12, 2:13 am, Nelson B Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > johst wrote, On 2008-09-11 16:39: > > > > > Ok, thanks for the reply. Slowly I will build my understanding of this > > system and the tools. Attached is the output of modutil - i'm not too > > sure how to interpret it though: > > > Listing of PKCS #11 Modules > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > 1. NSS Internal PKCS #11 Module > > slots: 2 slots attached > > status: loaded > > > slot: NSS Internal Cryptographic Services > > token: NSS Generic Crypto Services > > > slot: NSS User Private Key and Certificate Services > > token: NSS Certificate DB > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > OK, this tells us that you've got a very vanilla setup, > one module, two slots, no FIPS mode. That eliminates a LOT of > possible causes for failure. > > The problem you reported is: > > > signtool: can't generate digest context > > Unfortunately, Signtool doesn't report the error code that it received > when it tried to generate that digest context. It tells us "it failed" > but not why. :( That's a defect in signtool. > > But barring some hitherto undetected regression in NSS, there aren't > very many reasons for a digest context creation to fail. > > I wonder if there's been a regression on Linux. > This is one of two reports we've received in as many days of failure to > generate a digest context on Linux. The other was reported by David > Sadler in a thread with the subject "enabling crypto hardware for NSS". > He reported the error: > > > [Thu Sep 11 17:19:22 2008] [error] SSL Library Error: -12215 MD5 digest > > function failed > > Some questions for you: > What flavor (distro) of Linux are you using? > Did you get the NSS sources from mozilla.org or from the distributor of your > distro? _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
