On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Subrata Mazumdar <subrata.mazum...@ieee.org> wrote: > Hi, > > My experience so far is that PSM Certificate Manager is never launched when > PKCS#12 link is clicked. Not on Windows. Not on Linux (as described by the > bug filer). Do not remember for Mac OS X. > > Here is what I think is the explanation for the behavior on windows: > > On Windows PKCS#12 file type is associated with MS Crypto certificate > manager. So when someone clicks on the PKCS#12 file link, Windows crypto > manager is launched for importing the keys/certificates. > > Since IE and Chrome (do not know about Safari and Opera) uses the same > Windows Crypto DB/Manager, the imported keys/certificates in PKCS#12 is > always visible to both browsers. FF does not uses Windows CertDB - FF uses > it's own CertDB. As a result, imported key/cert is not visible in PSM > certificate manager.
This is correct. The user who reported that bug did not realize that Firefox is not using the Windows system certificate store, so the user had the wrong expectations. In any case, both Nelson and I have posted comments in that bug report. Wan-Teh -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
