Re: A possible solution to integrate crypto.Signtext PKCS #9 signing time attributes with XML-Signature ?

2006-12-13 Thread Anders Rundgren
Jesus, You have a number of alternatives, probably none of them that attractive :-( 1. Accept signText as is. 2. Use Java applets. Much more common than signText as far as I know. example: http://openoces.org 3. Use the signText code as a basis for a signTextXML 4. Hope that I and others succeed

Re: Accessing NSS methods from a Firefox extension's XPCOM DLL

2006-12-13 Thread Bob Relyea
prodizy wrote: Hi, Is it possible to access NSS methods from an XPCOM DLL(of my extension)? I mean, methods that are used by Firefox for hashing the master password, encrypting the private key that is used to encrypt the data etc(HashPassword(), SHA1_Update() etc). Or should I look for a third

Re: FIPS RSA keygen question

2006-12-13 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
David Stutzman wrote: Is RSA key generation via NSS FIPS approved? I was looking into FIPS-approved RSA and DSA capabilities of NSS. It seems everything is covered just fine for DSA. The certificate appears to cover private and public keygen, signature generation and verification and hashin

FIPS RSA keygen question

2006-12-13 Thread David Stutzman
Is RSA key generation via NSS FIPS approved? I was looking into FIPS-approved RSA and DSA capabilities of NSS. It seems everything is covered just fine for DSA. The certificate appears to cover private and public keygen, signature generation and verification and hashing. The RSA certificate

Accessing NSS methods from a Firefox extension's XPCOM DLL

2006-12-13 Thread prodizy
Hi, Is it possible to access NSS methods from an XPCOM DLL(of my extension)? I mean, methods that are used by Firefox for hashing the master password, encrypting the private key that is used to encrypt the data etc(HashPassword(), SHA1_Update() etc). Or should I look for a third party library or