265350 - signText pops up a dialog when given the 'auto' argument

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[Bill Burdick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

I noticed a comment in the code that said it was decided to always behave as if
'ask' were given.  I really would rather not write a C++ component; our project
is written in JavaScript (http://p2pmud.com/).

You can already execute programs from mozilla (which of course could be used to
accomplish the same thing, albeit a lot more slowly). Why not allow the use of
'auto' under the same restrictions as the use of nsIProcess?

The reason I marked this as 'major' is that our project is a peer-to-peer game
written in Mozilla and we were planning on using digital signatures to provide
some safety from spoofing attacks.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. crypto.signText('text', 'auto)

Actual Results:  
dialog pops up

Expected Results:  
no dialog or maybe a dialog pop-up only the first time.

the path to the code in question is: mozilla/security/manager/ssl/src/nsCrypto.cpp

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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