Certificate Distrust / Removal via Extension

2012-07-30 Thread Ridley
I'm looking for a way to eliminate troublesome cross-certificates from Firefox or Thunderbird, via an extension. I'm quite familiar with successfully adding certificates, but having some difficulty in using the APIs to remove and or distrust a certificate. This question applies to introduced "

Re: XPI signing certificate authority recomendations

2011-03-30 Thread Ridley
I found this write up that might explain some issues I have seen. I'm about to try this on a certificate provided to me that should be trusted. In think this might be inlne with what Eddy is saying about intermediates, and explain further why when using intermediates it does not work as expected

XPI signing certificate authority recomendations

2011-03-17 Thread Ridley
Could anyone make a suggestion on a Certificate Authority service company to use to purchase a certificate with the code/object signing capability needed to sign an XPI for Firefox to verify the author, with no need for the end user to have to install any intermediate certificates. [So that it tru

Known Issue? Looping CA Cross-Certificates not displayed as going to a Root CA

2011-03-06 Thread Ridley
Presence both of a pair of cross-certificates in the Authorities certificarte store results looping rather than traversing to a root certificate. Although the looping appears to end in the 5th scrolled image [See link to gallery below], that is ending at a cross- certificate and not a root. It app

Re: Issues with ActiveClient Smart Card Middleware with Firefox/Thunderbird Windows 7

2010-11-09 Thread Ridley
Try to load from location: "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActivIdentity\ActivClient\acpkcs211.dll" > We are trying to use the ActiveClient version 6.2 middleware with the > Department of Defense Common Access Card (CAC) with Windows 7, 64bit.   > The middleware works fine for IE, but does not load the de