[ILUG] handling smime attachments

[John Allman]

David O'Callaghan wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 17:53, John Allman wrote:
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>>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
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>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
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as i mentioned in a previous email, copying the entire profile over 
didn't work. So i tried copying the cert7.db and key3.db files into my 
profile (i first removed the cert8.db file). When i go to 
edit->preferences->Privacy&security->certificates and click on manage 
certificates it does seem to have the correct certificate in there. 
However i cant seem to get any info from the key3.db file. I tried 
clicking on enigmail but i only see insert private key options and not 
any tool to view them. ditto if i go through preferences. Does anyone 
know where i should be looking? Or even if i *can* do this?

thanks

John