I retrieved the file from the Mozilla FTP site: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_12_4_RTM/src/
I guess I'll try the source from the CVS repository. Thanks, Kai On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Nelson B Bolyard <nel...@bolyard.me> wrote: > On 2009-11-19 10:17 PST, Kai Chan wrote: > > > I'm using NSS 3.12.4 with NSPR 4.8 release. I want to generate keys and > > certs with the basic supported ECC curves (nistp256, nistp384, nistp521) > > included when NSS is compiled with the "NSS_ENABLE_ECC" flag. However, > > when I try using certutil to generate certificates using the basic NIST > > curves, I keep receiving the "security library failure" error. Is there > > something in NSS that has to be patched or a step during configuration > > that I missed? Could someone please verify the steps performed below > > are correct: > > > > tar -xvf nss-3.12.4-with-nspr-4.8.tar. > > Where did you get that file? > > > NSS_ENABLE_ECC=1; export NSS_ENABLE_ECC > > cd nss-3.12.4-with-nspr-4.8/mozilla/security/nss > > make nss_build_all > > > cd ~/nss_ecc > > certutil -N -d . > > certutil -G -k ec -q nistp256 -d . > > I did these same steps, except not on Linux, and I pulled the sources > from the CVS repository rather than from a tar file. I built the same > "basic ECC" build that you should have gotten, and ran the exact same > command you ran. It worked fine for me. > > Maybe there's a bug in the Linux Basic ECC builds. I'm not aware of any. > -- > dev-tech-crypto mailing list > dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto >
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