Re: Building and running NSS for Android.

2012-07-10 Thread Ryan Sleevi
On Tue, July 10, 2012 12:32 pm, Robert Relyea wrote: > On 07/09/2012 02:03 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote: > > Ian, > > Pardon me if I was a bit terse in my response. > > > > What I meant was simple that Operating Systems manage > > critical resources but only occasionally keys. That is, > > access to

Re: Building and running NSS for Android.

2012-07-10 Thread Robert Relyea
On 07/09/2012 02:03 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote: Ian, Pardon me if I was a bit terse in my response. What I meant was simple that Operating Systems manage critical resources but only occasionally keys. That is, access to persistent keys should only be done through OS calls like it has been the ca

Re: Building and running NSS for Android.

2012-07-10 Thread helpcrypto helpcrypto
IMVVHO, Firefox/Mozilla should work like Chrome: using the keystore of each OS. ie: MSKeystore on Windows, Keychain on OSX and (a shared) NSS on Linux. Similar for Android or other systems. Probably (surely) this was discussed somewhere and some time ago, but maybe the time to change has come

Re: Building and running NSS for Android.

2012-07-09 Thread Anders Rundgren
Ian, Pardon me if I was a bit terse in my response. What I meant was simple that Operating Systems manage critical resources but only occasionally keys. That is, access to persistent keys should only be done through OS calls like it has been the case for files since at least 40 years back. Howev

Re: Building and running NSS for Android.

2012-07-06 Thread Anders Rundgren
On 2012-07-06 10:29, ianG wrote: > On 6/07/12 16:14 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote: >> On 2012-07-06 01:51, Robert Relyea wrote: >>> I've gotten NSS to build and mostly run the tests for Android. > > Cool! > > >>> There are >>> still a number of tests failing, so the work isn't all done, but it was >

Re: Building and running NSS for Android.

2012-07-06 Thread ianG
On 6/07/12 16:14 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote: On 2012-07-06 01:51, Robert Relyea wrote: I've gotten NSS to build and mostly run the tests for Android. Cool! There are still a number of tests failing, so the work isn't all done, but it was a good point to snapshot what I had. How does this c

Re: Building and running NSS for Android.

2012-07-05 Thread Anders Rundgren
On 2012-07-06 01:51, Robert Relyea wrote: > I've gotten NSS to build and mostly run the tests for Android. There are > still a number of tests failing, so the work isn't all done, but it was > a good point to snapshot what I had. How does this compare/interact with Android's built-in key-store?

Building and running NSS for Android.

2012-07-05 Thread Robert Relyea
I've gotten NSS to build and mostly run the tests for Android. There are still a number of tests failing, so the work isn't all done, but it was a good point to snapshot what I had. I've stuck some very rough instructions on https://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS:Android . I'm move them to https://deve