ECC S/MIME encryption on Thunderbird?

2016-03-30 Thread Phil Pishioneri
Should Thunderbird allow encrypting of S/MIME email using an ECC certificate? I can successfully sign and receive signed messages that use an ECC certificate, but attempts to use the same certificate for encryption get a pop-up window (during save or attempting to send) with Unable to save you

Re: Unknown Error -8016

2016-03-30 Thread David Keeler
-8016 is SEC_ERROR_CERT_SIGNATURE_ALGORITHM_DISABLED (see https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d5d53a3b4e50b94cdf85d20690526e5a00d5b63e/security/nss/lib/util/secerr.h#207 ). Cheers, David On 03/30/2016 12:49 PM, Nicholas Mainardi wrote: > Hello, > > I am parsing and validating a sample of

Unknown Error -8016

2016-03-30 Thread Nicholas Mainardi
Hello, I am parsing and validating a sample of certificate chains. I am using PKIXVerifyCert function, and i check the error code in case it returns SECFailure. On a chain which is made by only one certificate, I got error -8016. However, I don't find it neither in this list