Re: Firefox and ECC TLS ciphersuites

2008-07-24 Thread bp
See responses in line below. "Nelson B Bolyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bill Price wrote, On 2008-07-24 15:17 PDT: >> I'm trying to do TLS using an ECC ciphersuite. I thought FF3 natively >> supported it (ECC ciphersuites are enabled in about:config). Using no

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Daniel Stenberg wrote, On 2008-07-23 14:43: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Ruchi Lohani wrote: > >> Since a lot of open source softwares are using NSS, I wish to know whether >> we have some documentation on specifics of >> >> OpenSSL and NSS and the advantages NSS has over OpenSSL. If so, can anybody >

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-07-24 Thread Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems
Paul, Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 11:43 PM +0200 7/23/08, Daniel Stenberg wrote: >> If you can stand a comparison that also involves GnuTLS, then the >> GnuTLS guys >> have one: >> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/comparison.html > > There are a lot of question marks on that for NSS. Some

Re: question about certificate chain from https://suppliers.intel.com

2008-07-24 Thread Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems
Edy, Eddy Nigg wrote: > > Neither Apache not IIS do that AFAIK. I believe the Netscape/iPlanet/Sun web server does at least log a warning when the server comes up if the cert cannot be verified, for example, because of a missing intermediate. However, if the intermediate cert was installed, b

Re: adding and removing certificate while FF3 is running?

2008-07-24 Thread joshuaaa
On Jul 24, 5:09 pm, Nelson B Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > joshuaaa wrote, On 2008-07-24 06:56: > > > This is part of a project to increase security here at work. To be > > honest, I'm not completely sure of all the details. I've just been > > asked to add/remove user certificates while the

Re: adding and removing certificate while FF3 is running?

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
joshuaaa wrote, On 2008-07-24 06:56: > This is part of a project to increase security here at work. To be > honest, I'm not completely sure of all the details. I've just been > asked to add/remove user certificates while the browser is running. User certificates? Certificates for which the user

Re: Firefox and ECC TLS ciphersuites

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Bill Price wrote, On 2008-07-24 15:17 PDT: > I'm trying to do TLS using an ECC ciphersuite. I thought FF3 natively > supported it (ECC ciphersuites are enabled in about:config). Using normal > downloads of FF3 on either Linux or Windows I'm getting the error that > there's no common ciphersuite.

Re: Firefox and ECC TLS ciphersuites

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Bill Price wrote, On 2008-07-24 15:17: > I'm trying to do TLS using an ECC ciphersuite. I thought FF3 natively > supported it (ECC ciphersuites are enabled in about:config). Using normal > downloads of FF3 on either Linux or Windows I'm getting the error that > there's no common ciphersuite. Lo

Re: question about ECC

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
ZhanLeo wrote, on 2008-07-24 07:45 PDT: > I'm building Firefox 2, and I find it support ECC. I gather that this project has begun relatively recently, and so I wonder why you're building Firefox 2 instead of Firefox 3. > Could I only limit the ECC key lengths to 128bits Such a change could be

Firefox and ECC TLS ciphersuites

2008-07-24 Thread mozilla
I'm trying to do TLS using an ECC ciphersuite. I thought FF3 natively supported it (ECC ciphersuites are enabled in about:config). Using normal downloads of FF3 on either Linux or Windows I'm getting the error that there's no common ciphersuite. Looking at SSLTap, both versions of FF3 browser a

Re: adding and removing certificate while FF3 is running?

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote, On 2008-07-24 05:52: > Nelson B Bolyard wrote: >> [...] >> For applications like FF3 that use NSS 3.12, which type of DB is used is >> under the control of the application. FF3 does not make use of the SQLite3 >> DBs (even though that capability was added primarily for F

Re: adding and removing certificate while FF3 is running?

2008-07-24 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Jean-Marc Desperrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nelson B Bolyard wrote: >> [...] >> For applications like FF3 that use NSS 3.12, which type of DB is used is >> under the control of the application. FF3 does not make use of the SQLite3 >> DBs (even though that capa

Re: question about certificate chain from https://suppliers.intel.com

2008-07-24 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Jean-Marc Desperrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For exemple about the shareable database, your response late in February > about that was that there was still a lot left to do for it, and that > you didn't see the point unless both Fx and Tb had it and it could

Re: question about certificate chain from https://suppliers.intel.com

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote, On 2008-07-24 05:37: > For exemple about the shareable database, your response late in February > about that was that there was still a lot left to do for it, In NSS, yes. That work was completed, as planned. > and that you didn't see the point unless both Fx and

Re: question about certificate chain from https://suppliers.intel.com

2008-07-24 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Eddy Nigg wrote, On 2008-07-24 01:15: > Nelson B Bolyard: >> I believe that, within the Mozilla developer community, there is a widely >> held misconception that NSS=PSM and the NSS team is the PSM team. But >> that's really not correct. Most of the NSS developers are paid to work >> on NSS but

Re: Wells Fargo CA inclusion/EV request

2008-07-24 Thread Frank Hecker
Eddy Nigg wrote: > Frank, I'd like to know (again) what our policy is in regards of EV > audit requirements. As I understand from the bug report, Wells Fargo > didn't actually absolved the EV audit, but some EV readiness audit. I > think we are past the time where we'd accept such audits? A qui

Re: adding and removing certificate while FF3 is running?

2008-07-24 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Nelson B Bolyard wrote: > [...] > For applications like FF3 that use NSS 3.12, which type of DB is used is > under the control of the application. FF3 does not make use of the SQLite3 > DBs (even though that capability was added primarily for FF3). [...] So that opportunity was missed for Fx 3. B

question about ECC

2008-07-24 Thread ZhanLeo
I'm building Firefox 2, and I find it support ECC. Could I only limit the ECC key lengths to 128bits or remove ECC support on FireFox 2? If yes, how can I change build scripts? Thanks, Leo _ MSN史诗巨片横空出世,精彩抢先看! http://im.msn.cn/___

Re: Decline in firefox usage due to lacking CA certificates

2008-07-24 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Thorsten Becker wrote: > Nelson B Bolyard schrieb: >>> I think the solution that Jean-Marc outlined above would make some >>> sense: It would make it a bit easier to visit certain sites, but >>> disturb permanently if someone visits a site that has no trust anchor >>> in firefox. >> >> There's a gr

Re: adding and removing certificate while FF3 is running?

2008-07-24 Thread joshuaaa
On Jul 23, 11:15 pm, Nelson B Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > joshuaaa wrote, On 2008-07-23 20:30: > > > Sorry for the confusion. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone can > > shed some light on this subject. I've spent plenty of hours > > researching and haven't come up with anything prom

Re: question about certificate chain from https://suppliers.intel.com

2008-07-24 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Nelson B Bolyard wrote: > Eddy Nigg wrote, On 2008-07-23 14:30: >> Nelson B Bolyard: >>> [...], when it sends the http get request to fetch the cert, it has >>> not yet validated the cert from which it got the http URL, so it doesn't >>> know if that URL is legitimate or from some hacker. It blind

RE: Failed to toggle FIPS mode with JSS

2008-07-24 Thread David Stutzman
> -Original Message- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > la.org] On Behalf Of Dean > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:09 PM > To: dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org > Subject: Re: Failed to toggle FIPS mode with JSS > Essentially I have an SSL implementation that I

Re: question about certificate chain from https://suppliers.intel.com

2008-07-24 Thread Eddy Nigg
Nelson B Bolyard: > > Only if the server cert is from a CA that follows a reasonable CP/CPS. > Obviously... > The case of concern is the server with a self-signed cert, or cert from > an unknown CA, that has an AIA extension that points to a tracking host > of some sort. The chain won't validate