176994 - big error in certificate handling

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 174634

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[Tormod Ravnanger Landet]

Using mozilla latest stable mozilla I could log into my bank if i chose a medium
security certificate (personal certificate). As far as I remember 2048b didn't
work, but 1024b did. Using mozilla 1.2b i can download al three (2048, 1024,
512) versions of the certificate, and they show up i the certificate handler,
but I am not given a choice between them when I log in, all I get is at "this
page requires a client certificate" error. 

Using latest stable I can choose between certificates (after making mozilla not
pick "the best"), allthough it took a while before that worked too. As far as I
remember a lot of certificates where downloaded/backed up/restored/deleted etc.
before the "choose certificate" box would allow the two users of the machine (me
and a friend) to pick our own certificate, not go whith the first on the list or
whatever mozilla chose. How it suddenly  worked is a mystery, the box "make me
choose certificate every time" (or similar) was ticked from the beginning,
though. Maybe some of the problem occured because my friend had a ø ø in
his name, which showed up as something different in the certificate listing, I
don't know.

The point is that before you could at least delete all certificates and restore
the one you where about to use before logging in to the bank, but now mozilla
doesen't pick any of the certificates on the client certificate list. This is
clearly a big error. Now I cannot use moz 1.2b for checking my regular sites
(which includes the bank skandiabanken.no). If it helps I am running moz on
win2000, norwegian edition without admin access (which is one of the reasons why
i run moz, IE doesn't allow me to download certificates because of access
controll, but moz could be installed fully in my personal folders (continue
that! I have come to hate all the software that refuses to be installed whithout
write access to c:\) and worked well enough (only error being the hassle before
certificates worked propperly on  moz 1).

Hope this can be fixed. Sorry for the long bug report.
Keep up the wery good work!

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> PSM

Comment 2

[John Unruh]

Reporter, can you try a recent nightly build, install into a clean directory,
and  a new profile, and try again?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 174634 ***

Comment 3

[John Unruh]

Verified.