181398 - Add export of public certificates

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 161275

(MailNews Core :: Security: S/MIME, enhancement)

Description

[Julien Pierre]

It is common for somebody to publish their PGP public key on a web page.
However, I have found that it is a lot harder to do with S/MIME certificates.
In fact, this is not possible at all in Mozilla without using certutil today.
The only certificate export format is PKCS#12, which contains the private key.

In terms of PSM features, this translates into the requirement to be able to
save a certificate with its public key out of the certificate database, without
the private key.

The possible target formats for public certs would be :
- single-cert (DER)
- cert chain - PKCS#7 (DER)
- Netscape certificate sequence (DER)

For each format there would be a binary or base64 variant.

This is all outlined at
http://wp.netscape.com/eng/security/comm4-cert-download.html .

Comment 1

[John G. Myers]

Mass reassign ssaux bugs to nobody

Comment 2

[boris marechal]

Please add an export button to the certificates viewer, with format choice (b64
or binary).
So we will be able to export all types of certicate (private, other people or
Trusted CA)

Comment 3

[Tom Mraz]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161275 ***