My problem is I am afraid that I spend too much time with excel and powerpoint (I am not even allowed to use StarOffice) instead of tinkering with nice pieces of software.
Good point. Roberto -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joern Sierwald Sent: Friday, 22 November, 2002 13:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Converting own CA certificate to pkcs12 At 13:02 22.11.2002 +0100, you wrote: >As far as I know there are only two ways for importing a CA certificate >into Netscape browser: > > 1) Through an HTTP/HTTPs connection to a Web server hosting >the CA certificate (using MIME type application/x-x509-ca-cert) > > 2) Importing it piggybacked in an user PKCS#12 (i.e., you >import an user certificate and the CA certificate) > >I have never used PKCS#12 for importing CA certificates only .It >bothers me to learn that it could be a proper usage of PKCS#12 format. >I always thought about it as a means for moving certs and keys around >with certain amount of confidentiality and integrity. > >It is kind of annoying that every PKI paper states the need for >out-of-band initialization of CA certificates and Netscape/Mozilla >browsers does not support common formats (IE uses PKCS#7 for example, >much more suited to this purpose). > >Hope it helps Err, folks. I just took a ca.cer file with a normal DER-encoded CA certificate, chose "open file" in Mozilla 1.1 and I got a nice dialog box: "You've been asked to trust a new CA ( ) trust this CA to identify web sites ( ) trust this CA to identify email users ( ) trust this CA to identify software developers View file/OK/Cancel" What is your problem? Jörn ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
