127052 - no support of NS comment extension

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, enhancement, P2)

Description

[thomask]

NS6.21 does not support NS Comment extension. We used to support it in
communicator 4.7x

 Identifier: Netscape Comment - 2.16.840.1.113730.1.13
                    Critical: no 
                    Comment :
                    Hello world!

Comment 1

[John Unruh]

Enhancement.

Comment 2

[Michael Gabriel]

dupe of Bug 91415 ?

Comment 3

[John Unruh]

*** Bug 91415 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[John G. Myers]

Mass reassign ssaux bugs to nobody

Comment 5

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Mass change "Future" target milestone to "--" on bugs that now are assigned to
nobody.  Those targets reflected the prioritization of past PSM management.
Many of these should be marked invalid or wontfix, I think.

Comment 6

[Wim Lewis]

I think this is long fixed (am currently running 31.7.0). A certificate with this extension displays "Netscape Certificate Comment" in the certificate viewer, and the contents of the extension are displayed as readable text in the "Field Value" pane.

Comment 7

[:Cykesiopka]

(In reply to Wim Lewis from comment #6)
> I think this is long fixed (am currently running 31.7.0). A certificate with
> this extension displays "Netscape Certificate Comment" in the certificate
> viewer, and the contents of the extension are displayed as readable text in
> the "Field Value" pane.

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/4a2337e621f1/security/manager/locales/en-US/chrome/pipnss/pipnss.properties#l111 tells me that support was present since at least March 2007.

However, support was subsequently removed in Bug 1018018 for Firefox 32 and above.

Comment 8

[:Cykesiopka]

Mozilla has been trying to get rid of support for Netscape proprietary stuff like the Netscape Server Gated Crypto EKU as well, so it seems unlikely that support for other such extensions would be added back unless absolutely necessary.