On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 17:53, John Allman wrote:
> I found cert7.db and key3.db files which apparently are some
> proprietary netscape way of storing keys and certificates. I found a
> document which claimed this format had been reverse engineered. I think
> i'm going to need to get data from these files. Does anyone have any
> experience in this? A little advice on how to proceed would be
> appreciated - the pressure is most definitely on
Well this format is still in use in Mozilla (and also it seems by
Evolution). THere's information about the format here:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/db_formats.html
You might be able to drop these into an existing mozilla profile
directory but you'll still need the passphrases to extract private keys.
For reference here's the output from 'locate cert7.db' and 'locate
key3.db' on my system:
/home/ocalladw/.mozilla/ocalladw/pomkqnrz.slt/cert7.db
/home/ocalladw/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/cert7.db
/home/ocalladw/.netscape/cert7.db
/home/ocalladw/evolution/cert7.db
/home/ocalladw/.mozilla/ocalladw/pqgkqnrz.slt/key3.db
/home/ocalladw/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/key3.db
/home/ocalladw/.netscape/key3.db
/home/ocalladw/evolution/key3.db
David
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