200621 - make SSL certificate fingerprint copyable (or even add a mailto link next to them)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 421341

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, enhancement)

Description

[Ralf Hauser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030331
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030331

When getting on sites using https with a self-made SSL certificate, I am getting
asked how to accept that certificate or whether I want to examine it (both fine
and being cautious, I do typically examine it).
When seeing the fingerprint, I could take the phone and ask the admin (if I know
their phone number) or send them the finger-print for approval (using MailNews
S/MIME or PGP - assuming I have those public keys already properly authenticated).
If I want to encrypted mail, it is a nuisance not to be able to just copy those
fingerprints via clipboard in that mail message
==> this is suggestion 1
suggestion 2: make a link next to it similar to the below
<a
href="mailto:[e-mail]?&Subject=Please%20Confirm%20SSL%20fingerprint%20with%20digitally%20signed%20response!&Body=SHA1%20Fingerprint%209D:0F:87:...:5C%20%20MD5%20Fingerprint%20%209B:76:FA:...:C6">mail
fingerprint to admin (edit address)</a>


P.S.: Today I have either to type it off the screen or do a printscreen jpg
attachment as the one following next.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Ralf Hauser]

Attachment: sample fingerprint screendump I am sending around currently

not very convenient, unfortunately

Comment 2

[John G. Myers]

Valid feature request, confirming

Comment 3

[John G. Myers]

Mass reassign ssaux bugs to nobody

Comment 4

[Soren Ragsdale]

*** Bug 315152 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***