267503 - Raise awareness / collaboration about two very important (IMHO) RFEs in the Mail components

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(NSS :: Libraries, enhancement)

Description

[Ken Johanson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041101
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041101

These two RFEs are the most profound, new, security-related Mail/News RFEs I
have ever seen. Just wanted to make sure that this component's users were aware
of them, since this component is where the expertise exists..

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135201
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263761

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
These relates to both mail-sender certificate validation and filter integration,
and use of mail-attachment virus scanning inside a encrypted email (client-side
obviously). I think there's MASSIVE room for Mozilla to innovate here..

Comment 1

[Ken Johanson]

Ralph, I hope you dont mind my CC-ing you on this, its seems to be a pair of
topics we both have a strong interest in :-)

Comment 2

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

This "bug" seems to be neither a bug report nor an enhancement request, 
but rather an advertisement for some other enhancement requests.
The place for advocacy of crypto bug fixes and enhancements is the mozilla.dev.tech.crypto newsgroup on news.mozilla.org, not in bug reports.  

I share your concern about these matters, but clearly the folks in charge of 
the mail+news clients don't.  Not much the NSS folks can do about that. :-/