Re: [Epiphany] Certifictate Management

[Robert Marcano <robert marcanoonline com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 18:57, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 09:57, robert@marcanoonline.com wrote:
> > My certificate manager dialog looks like this:
> > 
> > http://bugs.gnome.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=20406
> > 
> > It looks like mozilla xul based certificate manager, but i found some ugly
> > things about it:
> > 
> > - It is only able to export certificates from the personal tab. I was
> > thinking in converting the export button as a dialog button (like import),
> > but i not sure if i will be possible to disable it when no selection is made
> > (GTK/GNOME HIG allows that?)
> > - The View and Remove buttons are repeated on every notebook page, but if
> > those buttons are moved as a dialog button, there will be many buttons
> > there. Another option is to place the buttons at the right side of the
> > notebook but outside it
> > 
> > comparing it with the image located at:
> > 
> > http://patches.theflowerdays.com/cert/ie_manage.gif
> > 
> > - I don't like the missaligment between the Advanced and View buttons
> > - I don't find useful the "Certificate intended purposes" group box
> > 
> > and both screenshots has the following problems
> > 
> > - It is not easy to know if the export button exports only the selected
> > certificates from the current tab or from all tabs. Mozilla xul certificate
> > manager allows only to export (Backup) from the "Your certificates" tab
> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> before discussing details I'd like to get a more clear idea of user tasks involved
> and to write a brief document about it. I'm sorry if this is taking a lot of time,
> but I'm being busy with way too many things. I hope to have something by the end of the week.
> Btw thanks a lot for the work you are doing.

There is no problem, i am still learning many things that needs fixing.
I can talk about why i needed this in order to help you with your
document.

Currently my bank generates a certificate that I must use in order to
perform any operation on my accounts (I have only read access to my
accounts without the certificate), but the server software that they use
is only able to install the certificate on IE automatically, In order to
receive it without using IE i needed to go to the bank office to
retrieve it, in order to save me a little time i borrowed a windows
machine.

When the certificate was installed on IE, I exported it in a PKCS12
protected with the required password and imported it in mozilla. when I
started using Epiphany full time i noticed that I needed to import my
certificate to it too. Using my GUI, the user needs to open the
certificate manager, press the import button, select the PKCS12 file,
supply the file password, and if is the first time that a certificate is
being imported, a password is requested and confirmed in order to
protect the installed certificates

Hope this helps

> 
> Marco