757832 - Certificate viewer: Display human readable name constraints extension

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Security: PSM, defect, P5)

Description

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

When viewing a certificate with the certificate manager UI, all we get is a hexadecimal dump.

We should enhance Mozilla's code, enabling it to display a human readable display.

Comment 2

[Dana Keeler (she/her) (use needinfo) [:keeler] (on leave)]

Bug 557830 was changed to fix a bug in NSS. Any name constraints-related improvements to the certificate viewer in firefox can be tracked in this bug.

Comment 3

[Wim Lewis]

FYI: I submitted two patches to bug 557830 which provide this functionality (the human readable information is already parsed into a structure in the existing code; my patches simply display that structure's fields to the user). I believe the patches are still valid and would fix this bug / supply this feature, although there is some discussion in the other bug about whether maybe all of FF's X.509 support should be rewritten from scratch in javascript instead.

Comment 4

[Dana Keeler (she/her) (use needinfo) [:keeler] (on leave)]

We reimplemented the certificate viewer and won't be continuing to develop the old one.