1399099 - Single-right quote in code signing certificate's friendly name/alias, rather than an apostrophe, is preventing users from signing jarfiles

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[franco]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
Build ID: 20170803103124

Steps to reproduce:

When running the following command to sign jarfiles:

jarsigner -keystore ks -storepass changeit a.jar "ActivIdentity ActivClient0:CS <Agency>.<Unique Identifier>’s U.S. Government ID"

a non-ascii error is returned. The problem comes from a variable in the pipnss.properties file of the Firefox source:

mozilla-central > security > manager > locales > en-US > chrome > pipnss > pipnss.properties > nick_template = %s’s %s ID

This is an encoding issue(UTF-8). The single-right quote is a non-ascii character. Would it be possible to change the single-right quote to an apostrophe? Or remove " ’s" from nick_template entirely? 


Actual results:

Here is an example from one of our customers:

jarsigner: Certificate chain not found for: ActivID ActivClient 1:CS.DLA.0508052637â??s U.S. Government ID.  ActivID ActivClient 1:CS.DLA.0508052637â??s U.S. Government ID must reference a valid KeyStore key entry containing a private key and corresponding public key certificate chain.

Note where the single-right quote is supposed to be we get the following string:

" â??" 


Expected results:

jar signed.

Comment 1

[Kohei]

Please report the issue to jarsigner's developer (Oracle?)