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> Mark Hobbs wrote:
> >
> > I've seen this problem recently with a commercial PKCS11
> provider I use and
> > logged the following bug:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326637
> >
> > As far as I can see the problem i
>
> With my own PKCS11 provider installed I am seeing unnecessary password
> prompts to login to my provider. When I try to connect to a site
> with https,
> and sometimes just to an http site, I am always getting prompts for my
> password, even if the site does not use client authentication and
>
> > > Mark Hobbs wrote:
> > > >> Thanks for this Bob, unfortunately the behaviour still remains
> > > >> unchanged, as
> > > >> soon as I go to the login page of my Yahoo account I get a
> > > smartcard PIN
> > >
>
> > Mark Hobbs wrote:
> > >> Thanks for this Bob, unfortunately the behaviour still remains
> > >> unchanged, as
> > >> soon as I go to the login page of my Yahoo account I get a
> > smartcard PIN
> > >> request screen, which is str
> Mark Hobbs wrote:
> >> Thanks for this Bob, unfortunately the behaviour still remains
> >> unchanged, as
> >> soon as I go to the login page of my Yahoo account I get a
> smartcard PIN
> >> request screen, which is strange as the Yahoo login is not
PKCS11 driver for FF) but I
neither get the timeout (after approximately 10 minutes of inactivity on a
client authenticated SSL site) or the need to enter my smartcard password as
soon as FireFox browses to a normal SSL site (no client authentication).
As far as I can see things look to have changed
as I go to the login page of my Yahoo account I get a smartcard PIN
request screen, which is strange as the Yahoo login is not even SSL.
I am not convinces the behaviour was the same with FireFox 1.07 so I'll try
to pop that back on another machine and see.
Thanks for you comments,
Mark.
>
I am currently using FireFox V1.5 (Windows XP) and use a smartcard based
DigitalID (private key and X509 cert) via a commercial PKCS#11 DLL marketed
under the SafeSign name.
My question concerns the frequency I am prompted for my smartcard password.
It appears that when FireFox tries to perform so
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