Broken PEM Encoding in new Certificate Viewer
Categories
(Firefox :: Security, defect)
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People
(Reporter: wthayer, Unassigned)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
Steps to reproduce in Nightly:
- Click lock icon --> Connection Details --> More Information --> View Certificate
- Copy encoded data under Miscellaneous section beginning with "-----BEGIN"
- Paste into https://tls-observatory.services.mozilla.com/static/certsplainer.html
- Result is an error. Should be a decoded certificate.
With the new viewer we appear to lose the ability to export a certificate, so we need to be able to cut & paste the PEM encoded certificate into a file or into tools like Certsplainer.
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Updated•5 years ago
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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Also, please re-add the "Export" button that used to be available on the Certificate Viewer (it was at the bottom the Details section).
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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This bug needs to be fixed before the new Certificate Viewer goes into Release.
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Updated•5 years ago
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Comment 5•5 years ago
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This PEM was never supposed to be there. It's a regression from Certainly Something: there should be two links, one two download the certificate, and one to download the chain.
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Comment 6•5 years ago
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Would it be helpful if we had links to useful tools like certsplainer etc. directly on the about:certificate page (I guess that would need certsplainer to allow sending the certificate via query parameter)? Are there other tools that we could link to?
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Should we make it so that the certificate (and other fields) can be more easily copied, i.e. by adding a copy to clipboard button?
I can file these bugs if you think they are good ideas.
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Comment 7•5 years ago
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• Maybe someday? certsplainer is pretty rough as it is, so I'm not 100% certain we want to be linking to it until it's something that is nicely consumable by the public.
• That's a good amount of UX work; it should almost be entirely copy-pastable as it stands. Are you having trouble with that? We could maybe do some CSS magic that adds colons when you copy; I think that's possible.
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