Re: Converting own CA certificate to pkcs12

[Augusto Marcacini]

Matthew Hall wrote:

>> 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?
>>
>
>
> What was the name of your file? ca.cer? Mozilla under Linux does
> not appear to recognize this file (DER encoded) nor does it seem
> to recognize a PEM encoded one for me. And I do not have options
> in the menus to 'import new CA' or anything resembling that. It
> remains a rather frustrating task.
>
>
>
It works with Mozilla under Windows or Linux, but you may have to add some new configurations:

Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator -> Helper Applications -> New type:

Description of type: Certificate (or whatever...)
File extension: crt der cer pem (the ones you want to add...)
Mime type: application/x-x509-ca-cert
Application to use: Handled Internally (case sensitive?)

After that, you may "open file" or follow url file://xxxx/xxxx/abcd.crt

Augusto Marcacini
São Paulo - Brasil

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