Ian G wrote, On 2009-05-04 13:26: > On 4/5/09 22:04, Nelson Bolyard wrote: >> A very similar hack has already been done. It's a Firefox extension >> that (IIRC) silently installs some roots and shows the green bar for >> (some of) the certs that chain up to those roots. See it at >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4828 > > Nice, I like it .... can I have one in red? > > I'm not sure why you call it a hack,
I called it a hack only because Rick's original question described such a modification as a hack. I was replying using the terms he used. But I quite agree that that extension deserves a kinder word than "hack". It was really quite a feat. It included a DER decoder for certificates written in JavaScript. I was very impressed with that bit of code. > if the entire CA field operated this way, we wouldn't need to muck > around here and waste so much of our precious hacking time ;-) :-) -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
