Re: Restricting roots to one TLD

2007-03-20 Thread Kyle Hamilton
I thought we'd had this type of conversation before... or maybe it was on the TLS discussion list, and I'm not remembering. Regardless... A "trust anchor" is a public key. (It's not a certificate that contains the public key, or anything which can be validated with the public key -- it's t

Cryptographic provider list does not show up in Firefox

2007-03-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, all gurus on board, I guess this must be the right group for my question. I am working on a web-based certification authority application, from where users can apply for X.509 digital certificates. On the certificate application web form, I have a dropdown list of cryptographic providers. T

Re: Revision of Contributors Agreement

2007-03-20 Thread Gervase Markham
timeless wrote: > Did Camino do this when they created, added, or enhanced their > security UI? Possibly not; you'd need to ask them. > To provide a more amusing variant. Did the people who wrote help > (Netscape, and third parties) for the Security UI in Mozilla 1.7 or > Firefox (to the extent t

Re: Restricting roots to one TLD

2007-03-20 Thread Gervase Markham
Nelson Bolyard wrote: > Your proposal would require storing the equivalent of a name constraints > extension along with the root CA cert. It would also require additional > processing, because name constraints are generally not processed inside > trust anchors. That is, usually a CA puts the name