Re: Master Password method

2007-06-20 Thread Justin Dolske
Arrakis wrote: > I am trying to generate pre-configured credentials for Thunderbird, that > have been Master Password encoded. If you want to add stored password entries, you should be using the interfaces provided by Wallet (or Password Mananger / Login Mananger, for other products). Take a lo

Re: Proposal for improving the security of add-on updates

2007-06-20 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Hi Kai, Kai Engert wrote: Nelson B schrieb: I have heard that SSL server certs are available for FREE from Startcom (one of the CAs already known to mozilla products) at this web page: http://cert.startcom.org/ Wouldn't he require an object-signing aka code-signing cert? Are those ava

Re: Proposal for improving the security of add-on updates

2007-06-20 Thread Kai Engert
Nelson B schrieb: > Dave Townsend wrote: > >> Nelson Bolyard wrote: >> >>> $18/year is too expensive, eh? >>> >> Heh, this is true. My attempts to find cheap SSL certificates had only >> yielded $100/per year jobs. Given that they are not that expensive I >> have started doing a st

Re: Proposal for improving the security of add-on updates

2007-06-20 Thread Dave Townsend
Gervase Markham wrote: > Dave Townsend wrote: >> Indeed, the issue is with add-on authors who do not want to host on >> AMO (for a variety of quite valid reasons). > > Could you expand on what those reasons are? Some examples that I have heard (or experienced myself): Long review times leading

Re: Proposal for improving the security of add-on updates

2007-06-20 Thread Dave Townsend
Gervase Markham wrote: > Benjamin Smedberg wrote: >> We already support hashes specified by the upate.rdf for the XPI, and AMO >> uses this to serve the XPIs over http. However, the issue at hand is when >> the extension has nothing to do with AMO, and serves the update.rdf over >> HTTP or the XPI

Re: Proposal for improving the security of add-on updates

2007-06-20 Thread Gervase Markham
Dave Townsend wrote: > Indeed, the issue is with add-on authors who do not want to host on AMO > (for a variety of quite valid reasons). Could you expand on what those reasons are? > A compromise allowing authors to > host their xpis on their own sites but the update.rdf on AMO or some > othe

Re: Proposal for improving the security of add-on updates

2007-06-20 Thread Gervase Markham
Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > We already support hashes specified by the upate.rdf for the XPI, and AMO > uses this to serve the XPIs over http. However, the issue at hand is when > the extension has nothing to do with AMO, and serves the update.rdf over > HTTP or the XPI over HTTP without specifying

Re: Proposal for improving the security of add-on updates

2007-06-20 Thread Gervase Markham
Nils Maier wrote: > But that was never my point anyway (I talked about collisions)... And > does not make md5 less broken than I claimed and researchers found it was. MD5 is not "broken" or "not broken" - it depends on your particular application. In this case, the attacker would need to generate