Re: Signing using JS in Safari

2010-04-06 Thread Anders Rundgren
Hi Sunny, I haven't heard about Message Pro. Here is an open source (free) applet plugin: http://www.openoces.org/index.html It is used in Denmark and maybe somewhere else as well. In Sweden the government has spent some $30M over the years on: http://nexussafe.com/en/Products/Nexus-Personal

Re: Signing using JS in Safari

2010-04-06 Thread Sunny
Hi Anders, Thanks for your mail. Is there any proprietary solution that's named Message Pro or so?? On Apr 6, 5:26 pm, Anders Rundgren wrote: > Hi, > > Since there are no standards in this space most banks and e-governments > use proprietary (but cross-browser) Java plugins.  In the EU th

Re: Domain-validated name-constrained CA certificates?

2010-04-06 Thread Kurt Seifried
> This is not an issue.  The name constraint makes it impossible for a > domain registrant to issue a certificate that validates for a server > name outside that domain.  Hence, anything bad I do with my > intermediate certificate could only hurt me as registrant of > mattmccutchen.net. What about

Re: Domain-validated name-constrained CA certificates?

2010-04-06 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 05:17 +0300, Eddy Nigg wrote: > On 04/07/2010 05:01 AM, Matt McCutchen: > > But I do want to allow many more people to have their own sub-CAs, > > unless there is an actual technical reason why it is a bad idea, in > > which case I am hoping you will tell me. > > Yes, for exam

Re: Domain-validated name-constrained CA certificates?

2010-04-06 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 04/07/2010 05:01 AM, Matt McCutchen: On Apr 6, 5:58 am, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: Ah ! The direction of restricting people who currently use sub-CA for their purpose to make it more secure will certainly be much more successful than presenting it as allowing many more people to have th

Re: Domain-validated name-constrained CA certificates?

2010-04-06 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Apr 6, 5:58 am, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: > Ah ! The direction of restricting people who currently use sub-CA for > their purpose to make it more secure will certainly be much more > successful than presenting it as allowing many more people to have their > own sub-CA. But I do want to allow

Re: Domain-validated name-constrained CA certificates?

2010-04-06 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Apr 6, 5:54 am, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: > Matt McCutchen wrote: > > An extended key usage of "TLS Web Server Authentication" on the > > intermediate CA would constrain all sub-certificates, no? > > You are here talking about a proprietary Microsoft extension of the X509 > security model. N

Re: Signing using JS in Safari

2010-04-06 Thread Anders Rundgren
Hi, Since there are no standards in this space most banks and e-governments use proprietary (but cross-browser) Java plugins. In the EU there are at least 10 different national schemes. Chrome and Safari presumably do not support any pre-configured solution since no such solution has gotten any

Signing using JS in Safari

2010-04-06 Thread Sunny
Hi, I'm not able to find any literature on the topic of Signing data using Digital Certificates with JS in Safari browser. like, in Firefox, we have window.crypto.signtext() method that you can call from Java script to select a certificate and sign the data using the certificate. For IE, we h

Re: Domain-validated name-constrained CA certificates?

2010-04-06 Thread Rob Stradling
On Tuesday 06 April 2010 10:54:49 Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: > Matt McCutchen wrote: > > An extended key usage of "TLS Web Server Authentication" on the > > intermediate CA would constrain all sub-certificates, no? > > You are here talking about a proprietary Microsoft extension of the X509 > sec

Re: Domain-validated name-constrained CA certificates?

2010-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Matt McCutchen wrote: A name-constrained intermediate certificate could be quite convenient for the large organizations that are presently demanding their users to trust private CAs for the whole Web (see bug 501697). Ah ! The direction of restricting people who currently use sub-CA for their

Re: Domain-validated name-constrained CA certificates?

2010-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Matt McCutchen wrote: An extended key usage of "TLS Web Server Authentication" on the intermediate CA would constrain all sub-certificates, no? You are here talking about a proprietary Microsoft extension of the X509 security model. -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozill

Re: NSS Signtol et al

2010-04-06 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
On 2010/04/05 10:12 PDT, G. Richard Bellamy wrote: > I should have been more clear, I was asking if signtool, certutil, etc, > could run in FIPS mode. Absolutely, yes. It all depends on whether the "softoken" PKCS#11 module is configured to be in FIPS mode or not. If it is, then any program t