Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-08-12 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Howard Chu wrote, On 2008-08-12 19:12: > That was the other point I was trying to make about global state... It's > common practice to set up services with private CAs, so that random nosy > clients cannot connect to them. In an OpenLDAP proxy installation you'll > have one server cert/key and arb

RE: Comodo ECC CA inclusion/EV request

2008-08-12 Thread Robin Alden
> -Original Message- > From: Eddy Nigg > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:12 PM > To: dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org > Subject: Re: Comodo ECC CA inclusion/EV request > > Robin Alden: > > Eddy Nigg said: > >> In http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy/ section 7 > >> exp

Re: UTN-USERFirst-Object - "Can't verify signature

2008-08-12 Thread Nelson Bolyard
bmo wrote, On 2008-08-12 19:36: > I just pulled out a Windows Vista Machine -- with Firefox 2.0.15, and > hit the page with our signed java applet on it -- SUCCESS -- I am > provided a prompt that says the applet verified, do I want to run the > code? > I then installed FF 3.0.1 on the Vista machin

Re: NSS documentation guidance request

2008-08-12 Thread Gordon.Young
On Aug 8, 7:06 pm, Nelson Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gordon.Young wrote, On 2008-08-07 10:07: > > > the interesting thing is that even though the entire chain is passed > > during SSL handshake, Firefox does not find the issuer of the "EE > > issuing CA's" certificate. on this test server

How I do find the client cert in browser of a cert-based mutually authenticated session?

2008-08-12 Thread Subrata Mazumdar
Hi, I have a certificate based mutually authenticated session between the browser and a web server. I would like to find out the certificate used presented by the browser using a programmatic API. I can get the server certificate by clicking the icon at the status-bar window. How do I find out t

Re: UTN-USERFirst-Object - "Can't verify signature

2008-08-12 Thread Kyle Hamilton
Could you perhaps post your certificate chain? -Kyle H On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:25 PM, bmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a followup -- on Firefox 2.0.15 (Windows Vista), hitting our same > page with an applet signed by our cert as with FF 3.0.1 on Mac, > the dialog comes up as "Signature is v

Re: UTN-USERFirst-Object - "Can't verify signature

2008-08-12 Thread bmo
I just pulled out a Windows Vista Machine -- with Firefox 2.0.15, and hit the page with our signed java applet on it -- SUCCESS -- I am provided a prompt that says the applet verified, do I want to run the code? I then installed FF 3.0.1 on the Vista machine. Reset the JVM cache; hit the same page

Re: UTN-USERFirst-Object - "Can't verify signature

2008-08-12 Thread bmo
As a followup -- on Firefox 2.0.15 (Windows Vista), hitting our same page with an applet signed by our cert as with FF 3.0.1 on Mac, the dialog comes up as "Signature is verified, do you want to run this code?" - SUCCESS. That machine has never seen our signed java applet before; it has no certi

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-08-12 Thread Howard Chu
Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems wrote: > Nelson, > > Nelson Bolyard wrote: >> Julien R Pierre wrote on 2008-08-12 16:53 PDT: >>> Robert Relyea wrote: >>> SECMOD_OpenUserDB() will open new database slots in the internal database module. >>> Unfortunately, those additional DBs can't be m

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-08-12 Thread Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems
Nelson, Nelson Bolyard wrote: > Julien R Pierre wrote on 2008-08-12 16:53 PDT: >> Robert Relyea wrote: >> >>> SECMOD_OpenUserDB() will open new database slots in the internal >>> database module. >> Unfortunately, those additional DBs can't be manipulated separately. > > huh? > - key gens can b

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-08-12 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Julien R Pierre wrote on 2008-08-12 16:53 PDT: > Robert Relyea wrote: > >> SECMOD_OpenUserDB() will open new database slots in the internal >> database module. > > Unfortunately, those additional DBs can't be manipulated separately. huh? - key gens can be done in each one separately, - certs c

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-08-12 Thread Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems
Bob, Robert Relyea wrote: > SECMOD_OpenUserDB() will open new database slots in the internal > database module. Unfortunately, those additional DBs can't be manipulated separately. This is particularly a problem for trust. ___ dev-tech-crypto mailin

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-08-12 Thread Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems
Howard, Howard Chu wrote: > Did any of those FIPS audits red-flag the above code snippet? Of course not. You seem to be mistaken about the purpose and scope of FIPS140 validation. Only cryptographic code needs to be validated. The libnss initialization code is not cryptographic code, and thus

Re: UTN-USERFirst-Object - "Can't verify signature

2008-08-12 Thread bmo
On Aug 12, 3:18 pm, Nelson Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kyle Hamilton raised the possibility that the error you're seeing is from > the JVM rather than from Mozilla code.  If the complaint comes from Java, > which has its own PKI and trusted cert store, then I'd guess that Java > doesn't t

Re: UTN-USERFirst-Object - "Can't verify signature

2008-08-12 Thread Nelson Bolyard
bmo wrote, On 2008-08-12 11:41: > I've posted a PNG of the chain of trust as reported by the browser to > http://www.tryventi.com/certissue/onehub_cert.png That shows your cert to be valid. That's all that matters, with respect to your cert. You originally reported an error message that said:

Re: UTN-USERFirst-Object - "Can't verify signature

2008-08-12 Thread bmo
On Aug 12, 1:40 pm, "Kyle Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Er.  Java on the Mac might use the system Keychain, instead of the > Firefox security module.  Try looking in Keychain Access for the > UTN-USERFirst certificate, and then try installing it into Keychain > Access, and try it again. G

Dan Kaminsky's DNS talk discusses SSL

2008-08-12 Thread Nelson Bolyard
If you haven't already done so, read Dan Kaminsky's slides from his talk at blackhat. http://www.doxpara.com/DMK_BO2K8.ppt After he presents the DNS attack, he talks about SSL, certs, and what browsers must do to get read security against DNS attacks from SSL and certs. If you don't have time to

Re: UTN-USERFirst-Object - "Can't verify signature

2008-08-12 Thread Kyle Hamilton
Er. Java on the Mac might use the system Keychain, instead of the Firefox security module. Try looking in Keychain Access for the UTN-USERFirst certificate, and then try installing it into Keychain Access, and try it again. -Kyle H On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:41 AM, bmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: UTN-USERFirst-Object - "Can't verify signature

2008-08-12 Thread bmo
On Aug 11, 9:42 pm, Nelson B Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bmo wrote, On 2008-08-11 20:22: > > > Summary: I suspect that there's something wrong with the BUILT-IN Root > > CA cert UTN-USERFirst-Object in Firefox 3.0.1. > Look at your cert in FF2.  Look at the cert chain.  Do you see only tw

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-08-12 Thread Robert Relyea
Nelson B Bolyard wrote: Howard Chu wrote, On 2008-08-11 20:07: Nelson B Bolyard wrote: Howard Chu wrote, On 2008-08-10 14:13: It would make it impossible to use in e.g. OpenLDAP/nss_ldap because applications would be unable to load their own configuration settings after nss_ldap

Re: Error adding certificate to NSS database

2008-08-12 Thread elio
On Aug 10, 6:43 am, Yevgeniy Gubenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Nelson for your reply. > Yes, I was producing cert8.db. > I used your link to recreate the certificates, > but still got the same exception as before when fips mode was enabled in the > stage of importing CA certificate file

Re: UTN-USERFirst-Object - "Can't verify signature

2008-08-12 Thread Rob Stradling
Brian, something else you might like to try... The "UTN-USERFirst-Object" Root CA happens to be cross-certified by the "AddTrust External CA Root" Root CA. Both Roots are owned by Comodo, and both are trusted by Firefox for the purpose of signing code. You can download the cross-certificate fr