SafeSign and OSX

December 10th, 2008 @ 20:27 by Willem

After my blog post on OSX and Aladdin eToken I received a phonecall from Haaino @ AET Europe. He offered the SafeSign software for OSX so I could try their OSX software as well.

The SafeSign software is used with smartcards and smartcard readers like the OmniKey smartcard readers. Through my line of work, no lack of smartcards and/or readers. Only the software was missing (up till now).

The package I received contained TokenLounge software and the SafeSign v3.0 drivers for OSX. After installation of the software, you’re left with Token Administration, and TokenLounge Software. The software installation took place on an iMac running OSX 10.5.5. (more…)

FireFox 3 Dialog Boxes

July 8th, 2008 @ 21:40 by Willem

Firefox is the default browser on all my platform, and every once in a while I run into strange dialog boxes.
E.g., this evening I updated some digital certificates for the test environment of VeriSign MPKI backend. These certificates are issued by a (private) VeriSign CA. So there’s no trust by default.

After generating the keypair in FireFox 3 I got the positive dialog box as showed below.

No problem so far, but the next dialog box ’scared’ me a little;

This dialog box, or at least the result, would remove (or delete) the certificate I just generated. The issueing CA is not installed in FireFox (or on the machine itself for all it matters). But in fact the certificate was installed in the Crypto/Certificate store of FireFox, and I could use it to access the VeriSign test backend.

So, eventhough, FireFox warns the user that the content will be deleted (or not added), it doesn’t exactly does that at all. Let’s see if I can file a bug report, because this occured on all 4 certificates I generated/imported.