On 2010/04/08 11:11 PDT, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>> Hi Mountie,
>>> A service provider cannot specify *anything* regarding key protection
>>> using Firefox.
>>
>> Anders, I think Mountie was referring to "Crypto Service Provider" (CSP),
>> which is Microsoft's name for software modules that follow Microsoft's
>> alternative that is approximately equivalent to the PKCS#11 standard.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I thought the following line of Mountie
> 
> "the manual configuration is not so attractive for service provider"
> 
> referred to Firefox's inferior key generation concept. 

I think he's referring to the fact that the PKCS#11 module must be manually
configured to be in FIPS mode or not in FIPS mode.

Mountie, please tell us what you meant.  Thanks.

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