Re: Are NSS bug fix releases still FIPS 140-2 certified?

2017-04-10 Thread Ernie Kovak
Kyle Hamilton is right. The authoritative document is the NSS module's security policy, which is linked from their validation certificate (see above). That policy specifies how the module can be used in order to be FIPS 140-2 compliant. According to the NIST FIPS 140-2 Implementation Guide (htt

[TDB 45.8.0] Thunderbird rejects non-CA self-signed certificates for e-mail signature verification

2017-04-10 Thread NovHak
Dear forum readers, I use self-signed certificates. As long as it's not for a large public, trust can be achieved that way : the certificate is sent to a friend, its fingerprint is then verified via a secure (enough) channel such as a phone call, and that's fine. Hence I was sure this wouln't

[TDB 45.8.0] Thunderbird doesn't accept non-CA self signed certificates for e-mail signature verification

2017-04-10 Thread NovHak
Dear forum readers, I use self-signed certificates. As long as it's not for a large public, trust can be achieved that way : the certificate is sent to a friend, its fingerprint is then verified via a secure (enough) channel such as a phone call, and that's fine. Hence I was sure this wouln't

[TDB 45.8.0] Thunderbird rejects non-CA self-signed certificates for e-mail signature verification

2017-04-10 Thread NovHak
Dear forum readers, I use self-signed certificates. As long as it's not for a large public, trust can be achieved that way : the certificate is sent to a friend, its fingerprint is then verified via a secure (enough) channel such as a phone call, and that's fine. Hence I was sure this wouln't