Re: PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-26 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: > The use case I was describing below was the one I saw for someone using > certs in both Firefox and Thunderbird. > > If the need to share cert already existed before the technical > possibility, the user had to do it by hand, and will not be under shock > to have to

Re: PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-26 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Robert Relyea wrote: > Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: >> Robert Relyea wrote: >>> I'm currently running my Firefox and TB against the sqlite3 database. >>> The main impediment to general deployment is Bug 391296. >>> >>> New NSS applications would not have to worry about the issues in Bug >>> 391296.

Re: PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-12 Thread Robert Relyea
Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: Robert Relyea wrote: If you want to start playing with it, try the instructions at http://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS_Shared_DB_Samples I wrote them up when we had the first alpha version of the shared database. I just went in and added a few comments to bring them u

Re: PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-11 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Robert Relyea wrote: If you want to start playing with it, try the instructions at http://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS_Shared_DB_Samples I wrote them up when we had the first alpha version of the shared database. I just went in and added a few comments to bring them up to date (you no longer have to

Re: PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-11 Thread Robert Relyea
Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: Shared DB would be one of the greatest things! So I'm not able to judge if and when it can be done, but looking very much forward to it. Bob, how can I enable this for FF and TB to share the same DB? If you want to start playing with it, try the instruction

Re: PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-11 Thread Robert Relyea
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: Robert Relyea wrote: I'm currently running my Firefox and TB against the sqlite3 database. The main impediment to general deployment is Bug 391296. New NSS applications would not have to worry about the issues in Bug 391296. I really think than simply suppo

Re: PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-08 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: > Robert Relyea wrote: > >> I'm currently running my Firefox and TB against the sqlite3 database. >> The main impediment to general deployment is Bug 391296. >> >> New NSS applications would not have to worry about the issues in Bug >> 391296. >> > > I really thi

Re: PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-08 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Robert Relyea wrote: > I'm currently running my Firefox and TB against the sqlite3 database. > The main impediment to general deployment is Bug 391296. > > New NSS applications would not have to worry about the issues in Bug > 391296. I really think than simply supporting mode 2 (see http://wiki.

Re: PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-07 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Nelson Bolyard wrote: > Joe Orton wrote, On 2008-02-07 00:46: > >> Hi. When using the libsoftokn3.so PKCS#11 provider, is it safe to open >> a read-only session to a database which is opened read-write by another >> process (e.g. Firefox)? (By "safe", I mean simply that the provider >> will

Re: PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Relyea
Nelson Bolyard wrote: Joe Orton wrote, On 2008-02-07 00:46: Hi. When using the libsoftokn3.so PKCS#11 provider, is it safe to open a read-only session to a database which is opened read-write by another process (e.g. Firefox)? (By "safe", I mean simply that the provider will not crash and

Re: PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-07 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Joe Orton wrote, On 2008-02-07 00:46: > Hi. When using the libsoftokn3.so PKCS#11 provider, is it safe to open > a read-only session to a database which is opened read-write by another > process (e.g. Firefox)? (By "safe", I mean simply that the provider > will not crash and burn if Firefox mo

PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-07 Thread Joe Orton
Hi. When using the libsoftokn3.so PKCS#11 provider, is it safe to open a read-only session to a database which is opened read-write by another process (e.g. Firefox)? (By "safe", I mean simply that the provider will not crash and burn if Firefox modifies something underneath it) joe _