146434 - Last part of section "Edit Ciphers" is not present in Mozilla Help

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Documentation Graveyard :: Help Viewer, defect)

Description

[Stefan]

I'm currently translating some help files for the german Mozila project
(www.kairo.at/mozilla) and therefore I found an error in the ssl_help.html:
The last part of the "Edit Ciphers" section explain how to gain informations
about "cipher suites", but this possibility is not present on current Mozilla
builds!

This is missing:

Each checkbox corresponds to a cipher suite, or set of cryptographic algorithms.
To view info information about a cipher suite, select its name.

The following information is displayed for the selected cipher suite:

    * Encryption algorithm: Used for bulk encryption and decryption.
    * Authentication Algorithm: Used to determine the server or client's identity.
    * Key Algorithm: Governs the way in which the server and client determine
the symmetric keys they will both use during an SSL session.
    * Key Size: The size of the keys used with this cipher suite. (Encryption
strength depends on both encryption algorithm and key size.)
    * MAC Algorithm: Used for tamper detection and data verification; sometimes
called message digest or hash algorithm.
    * Other Attributes. These can include the following:
          o FIPS. Complies with Federal Information Processing Standards
Publications (FIPS PUBS) 140-1. Many products sold to the US government must
comply with one or more FIPS standards.
    o IsExportable. Cipher suite was legally exportable under regulations
published by the U.S. Department of Commerce that previously limited the
encryption strength of exported products. Those regulations have since been
loosened.

Comment 1

[rudman]

Reassigning to Cotter.

Comment 2

[Sean Cotter]

This text is an attempt to anticipate the eventual fix for 102633. Once that fix
lands the existing help will need further tweaking to match the final interface.

Accepting bug for tracking purposes.

Comment 3

[Giacomo Magnini]

The bug being referenced is actually bug 184940 and it has been fixed.

Comment 4

[Giacomo Magnini]

Attachment: Add missing descriptions

Here we go. I've used the text provided and added just formatting, a missing
entry and a modified a name entry to adapt to the new UI.

Comment 5

[Giacomo Magnini]

Attachment: Minor nits addressed

Minor nits noted by Stefan addressed.

Comment 6

[Giacomo Magnini]

Attachment: Updated patch.

Comment 7

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

--> Giacomo

Comment 8

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 160911 [details] [diff] [review]
Updated patch.

>+  <li><strong>Other Attributes:</strong> These can include the following:
>+  <ul>
>+    <li><strong>FIPS</strong> Complies with Federal Information Processing 
Nit: inner ul should be indented i.e.
  <li><strong>Other ...
    <ul>
      <li><strong>FIPS</strong> ...

Comment 9

[Giacomo Magnini]

Attachment: Nit fixed

Neil, could you check in please?

Comment 10

[Ian Neal]

Checking in en-US/ssl_help.xhtml;
/cvsroot/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/ssl_help.xhtml,v  <-- 
ssl_help.xhtml
new revision: 1.30; previous revision: 1.29
done

Comment 11

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

--> Fixed

Comment 12

[Giacomo Magnini]

argh! Stupid typo got in:
"To view info information about a cipher suite"
Should be:
"To view more informations about a cipher suite"
Who's gonna fix that? :)

Comment 13

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

(In reply to comment #12)
> argh! Stupid typo got in:
> "To view info information about a cipher suite"
> Should be:
> "To view more informations about a cipher suite"

Shouldn't it be "To view information about a cipher suite"?

Comment 14

[Giacomo Magnini]

Attachment: Fix typo

Hoping for a quick r and checkin round... :)

Comment 15

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 161942 [details] [diff] [review]
Fix typo

Typo fix checked in.

Comment 16

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

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