Hi.

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Nelson B Bolyard <nel...@bolyard.me> wrote:

> > Mountie Lee wrote:
> >> Thanks Eddy.
> >>
> >> in IE
> >> the service provider can choose the private key can be exportable or
> not.
> >>
> >> the manual configuration is not so attractive for service provider.
>
> On 2010-04-08 04:14 PST, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> > 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.
>
> A PKCS#11 CSP can indeed choose to make private keys exportable or not.
> A FIPS mode CSP will generally make private keys unexportable.
> NSS's NON-FIPS PKCS#11 CSP can also make non-exportable keys, IIRC,
> but Firefox offers no option to set that attribute on new keys when
> creating or importing them.
>

yes. this is what I'm saying.


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