This section describes how to use the Certificate Manager. For more general information on using certificates, see Using Certificates. @@ -28,7 +27,8 @@
In this section:
- + +- -
The Your Certificates tab in the Certificate Manager allows you to examine and work with the certificates you have on file that identify you. To select a certificate, click its name. To select more than one certificate, hold down the Control key and click the names of those you want to select. +
The Your Certificates tab in the Certificate Manager displays the certificates on file that identify you. Your certificates are listed under the names of the organizations that issued them: -
To perform these actions, select the certificates on which you want to act and click one of these buttons: +
To perform the following actions, select the certificates on which you want to act and click one of these buttons:
-[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
-- -
A certificate backup password protects one or more certificates that you are backing up using the Backup or Backup All button in the Your Certificates panel of the Certificate Manager. +
The browser asks you to set a certificate backup password when you back up certificates, and requests it when you attempt to restore certificates that have previously been backed up.
+A certificate backup password protects one or more certificates that you are backing up from the Your Certificates tab in the Certificate Manager. -
Choose a good password: If someone obtains the file containing a certificate that you have backed up and successfully restores the certificate, that person can send messages or access web sites while pretending to be you. This can have negative consequences, for example, if you digitally sign important email messages or manage your bank or investment accounts over the Internet. +
The Certificate Manager asks you to set this password when you back up certificates, and requests it when you attempt to restore certificates that have previously been backed up.
+ +If someone obtains the file containing a certificate that you have backed up and successfully restores the certificate, that person can send messages or access web sites while pretending to be you. This can be a problem, for example, if you digitally sign important email messages or manage your bank or investment accounts over the Internet.
Therefore, it's important to select a certificate backup password that is difficult to guess. The password quality meter gives you a rough idea of the quality of your password as you type it based on factors such as length and the use of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.
For further guidelines, see the online document Choosing a Good Password. -
It's also important to record the password in a safe place—and not anywhere that's easily accessible to someone else. If you forget this password, you can't restore the backup of your certificate.
+It's also important to record the password in a safe place—and not anywhere that's easily accessible to someone else. If you forget this password, you can't restore the backup of your certificate.
--[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
- -
Before deleting one of your own expired certificates, make sure you won't need it again some day for reading old email messages that you may have encrypted with the corresponding private key. +
Before deleting one of your own expired certificates from the Your Certificates tab in the Certificate Manager, make sure you won't need it again some day for reading old email messages that you may have encrypted with the corresponding private key.
--[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
- -
The Web Sites tab in the Certificate Manager allows you to examine and work with the certificates you have on file that identify web sites. +
To perform these actions, select the certificates on which you want to act and click one of these buttons: +
The Other People's tab in the Certificate Manager displays email certificates you have on file that identify other people. + +
When people send you digitally signed email messages, Certificate Manager imports their certificates automatically. You can use these certificates to send encrypted messages to those people. + +
Other people's certificates are listed under the names of the organizations that issued them: + +
To perform the following actions, select the certificates on which you want to act and click one of these buttons: + +
+
When you select someone else's certificate from the Other People's tab in the Certificate Manager and click Edit, you see a dialog box titled "Edit email certificate trust settings." + +
Here you specify whether you want to trust the selected certificate to identify messages from and send encrypted messages to the email address shown. + +
The dialog box contains these elements: + +
Click OK to confirm your choice. + +
+ +
Before deleting someone else's certificate from the Other People's tab in the Certificate Manager, make sure you won't need it again some day to send encrypted email to that person or to verify digital signatures on messages from that person. + + +
+ +
The Web Sites tab in the Certificate Manager displays certificates you have on file that identify web sites. + +
Web site certificates are grouped under the names of the organizations that issued them: + +
To perform the following actions, select the certificates on which you want to act and click one of these buttons:
- -
When you select a web site certificate and click Edit, you see a window entitled "Edit web site certificate trust settings." Here you specify whether you want to trust the selected certificate for identifying the web site and setting up an encrypted connection. +
When you select a web site certificate from the Web Sites tab in the Certificate Manager and click Edit, you see a window entitled "Edit web site certificate trust settings." + +Here you specify whether you want to trust the selected certificate for identifying the web site and setting up an encrypted connection.
+ +
The dialog box contains these elements:
To specify trust settings for the certificate authority (CA) that issued the web site certificate, click Edit CA Trust. The CA trust settings allow you to trust or not to trust different kinds of certificates issued by that certificate authority. For example, you can choose to trust all web site certificates issued by that certificate authority. +
Click OK to confirm your choice. -
-[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
+ +- -
Before deleting a web site certificate, make sure that you won't need it again for the purposes of identifying a web site and setting up an encrypted connection. +
Before deleting a web site certificate from the Web Sites tab in the Certificate Manager, make sure that you won't need it again for the purposes of identifying a web site and setting up an encrypted connection. -
-[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
-- -
The Authorities tab in the Certificate Manager allows you to examine and work with the certificates you have on file that identify certificate authorities (CAs). +
The Authorities tab in the Certificate Manager displays the certificates you have on file that identify certificate authorities (CAs). + + +
CA certificates are grouped under the names of the organizations that issued them: + +
To perform these actions, select the certificates on which you want to act and click one of these buttons:
- -
When you select a CA certificate and click Edit, you see a window entitled "Edit CA certificate trust settings." Here you specify the kinds of certificates you trust this CA to certify. If you deselect all the checkboxes, Certificate Manager will not trust any certificates issued by this CA. +
When you select a CA certificate from the Authorities tab in the Certificate Manager and click Edit, you see a window entitled "Edit CA certificate trust settings." Here you specify the kinds of certificates you trust this CA to certify. If you deselect all the checkboxes, Certificate Manager will not trust any certificates issued by this CA.
The settings have these effects:
Click OK to confirm the settings you have selected. -
-[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
++ +
Before deleting a CA certificate from the Authorities tab in the Certificate Manager, make sure that you won't need it again to validate certificates issued by that CA. If you delete the only valid certificate you have for a CA, Certificate Manager will no longer trust any certificates issued by that CA.
- -
Before deleting a CA certificate, make sure that you won't need it again to validate certificates issued by that CA. If you delete the only valid certificate you have for a CA, Certificate Manager will no longer trust any certificates issued by that CA. - -
-[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
- -- -
This section describes the options available in the Device Manager window. For background information and step-by-step instructions on the use of the Device Manager, see Manage Smart Cards and Other Security Devices. @@ -223,14 +296,8 @@
-[ Return to beginning of Device Manager section ] -
- -11 January 2002
+8 February 2002
Copyright © 1994-2002 Netscape Communications Corporation.
diff --git a/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/certs_help.xhtml b/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/certs_help.xhtml index 41fdcac8aae..fd8cfbbf357 100644 --- a/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/certs_help.xhtml +++ b/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/certs_help.xhtml @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ -This section describes how to use the Certificate Manager. For more general information on using certificates, see Using Certificates. @@ -28,7 +27,8 @@
In this section:
- + +- -
The Your Certificates tab in the Certificate Manager allows you to examine and work with the certificates you have on file that identify you. To select a certificate, click its name. To select more than one certificate, hold down the Control key and click the names of those you want to select. +
The Your Certificates tab in the Certificate Manager displays the certificates on file that identify you. Your certificates are listed under the names of the organizations that issued them: -
To perform these actions, select the certificates on which you want to act and click one of these buttons: +
To perform the following actions, select the certificates on which you want to act and click one of these buttons:
-[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
-- -
A certificate backup password protects one or more certificates that you are backing up using the Backup or Backup All button in the Your Certificates panel of the Certificate Manager. +
The browser asks you to set a certificate backup password when you back up certificates, and requests it when you attempt to restore certificates that have previously been backed up.
+A certificate backup password protects one or more certificates that you are backing up from the Your Certificates tab in the Certificate Manager. -
Choose a good password: If someone obtains the file containing a certificate that you have backed up and successfully restores the certificate, that person can send messages or access web sites while pretending to be you. This can have negative consequences, for example, if you digitally sign important email messages or manage your bank or investment accounts over the Internet. +
The Certificate Manager asks you to set this password when you back up certificates, and requests it when you attempt to restore certificates that have previously been backed up.
+ +If someone obtains the file containing a certificate that you have backed up and successfully restores the certificate, that person can send messages or access web sites while pretending to be you. This can be a problem, for example, if you digitally sign important email messages or manage your bank or investment accounts over the Internet.
Therefore, it's important to select a certificate backup password that is difficult to guess. The password quality meter gives you a rough idea of the quality of your password as you type it based on factors such as length and the use of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.
For further guidelines, see the online document Choosing a Good Password. -
It's also important to record the password in a safe place—and not anywhere that's easily accessible to someone else. If you forget this password, you can't restore the backup of your certificate.
+It's also important to record the password in a safe place—and not anywhere that's easily accessible to someone else. If you forget this password, you can't restore the backup of your certificate.
--[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
- -
Before deleting one of your own expired certificates, make sure you won't need it again some day for reading old email messages that you may have encrypted with the corresponding private key. +
Before deleting one of your own expired certificates from the Your Certificates tab in the Certificate Manager, make sure you won't need it again some day for reading old email messages that you may have encrypted with the corresponding private key.
--[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
- -
The Web Sites tab in the Certificate Manager allows you to examine and work with the certificates you have on file that identify web sites. +
To perform these actions, select the certificates on which you want to act and click one of these buttons: +
The Other People's tab in the Certificate Manager displays email certificates you have on file that identify other people. + +
When people send you digitally signed email messages, Certificate Manager imports their certificates automatically. You can use these certificates to send encrypted messages to those people. + +
Other people's certificates are listed under the names of the organizations that issued them: + +
To perform the following actions, select the certificates on which you want to act and click one of these buttons: + +
+
When you select someone else's certificate from the Other People's tab in the Certificate Manager and click Edit, you see a dialog box titled "Edit email certificate trust settings." + +
Here you specify whether you want to trust the selected certificate to identify messages from and send encrypted messages to the email address shown. + +
The dialog box contains these elements: + +
Click OK to confirm your choice. + +
+ +
Before deleting someone else's certificate from the Other People's tab in the Certificate Manager, make sure you won't need it again some day to send encrypted email to that person or to verify digital signatures on messages from that person. + + +
+ +
The Web Sites tab in the Certificate Manager displays certificates you have on file that identify web sites. + +
Web site certificates are grouped under the names of the organizations that issued them: + +
To perform the following actions, select the certificates on which you want to act and click one of these buttons:
- -
When you select a web site certificate and click Edit, you see a window entitled "Edit web site certificate trust settings." Here you specify whether you want to trust the selected certificate for identifying the web site and setting up an encrypted connection. +
When you select a web site certificate from the Web Sites tab in the Certificate Manager and click Edit, you see a window entitled "Edit web site certificate trust settings." + +Here you specify whether you want to trust the selected certificate for identifying the web site and setting up an encrypted connection.
+ +
The dialog box contains these elements:
To specify trust settings for the certificate authority (CA) that issued the web site certificate, click Edit CA Trust. The CA trust settings allow you to trust or not to trust different kinds of certificates issued by that certificate authority. For example, you can choose to trust all web site certificates issued by that certificate authority. +
Click OK to confirm your choice. -
-[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
+ +- -
Before deleting a web site certificate, make sure that you won't need it again for the purposes of identifying a web site and setting up an encrypted connection. +
Before deleting a web site certificate from the Web Sites tab in the Certificate Manager, make sure that you won't need it again for the purposes of identifying a web site and setting up an encrypted connection. -
-[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
-- -
The Authorities tab in the Certificate Manager allows you to examine and work with the certificates you have on file that identify certificate authorities (CAs). +
The Authorities tab in the Certificate Manager displays the certificates you have on file that identify certificate authorities (CAs). + + +
CA certificates are grouped under the names of the organizations that issued them: + +
To perform these actions, select the certificates on which you want to act and click one of these buttons:
- -
When you select a CA certificate and click Edit, you see a window entitled "Edit CA certificate trust settings." Here you specify the kinds of certificates you trust this CA to certify. If you deselect all the checkboxes, Certificate Manager will not trust any certificates issued by this CA. +
When you select a CA certificate from the Authorities tab in the Certificate Manager and click Edit, you see a window entitled "Edit CA certificate trust settings." Here you specify the kinds of certificates you trust this CA to certify. If you deselect all the checkboxes, Certificate Manager will not trust any certificates issued by this CA.
The settings have these effects:
Click OK to confirm the settings you have selected. -
-[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
++ +
Before deleting a CA certificate from the Authorities tab in the Certificate Manager, make sure that you won't need it again to validate certificates issued by that CA. If you delete the only valid certificate you have for a CA, Certificate Manager will no longer trust any certificates issued by that CA.
- -
Before deleting a CA certificate, make sure that you won't need it again to validate certificates issued by that CA. If you delete the only valid certificate you have for a CA, Certificate Manager will no longer trust any certificates issued by that CA. - -
-[ Return to beginning of Certificate Manager section ] -
- -- -
This section describes the options available in the Device Manager window. For background information and step-by-step instructions on the use of the Device Manager, see Manage Smart Cards and Other Security Devices. @@ -223,14 +296,8 @@
-[ Return to beginning of Device Manager section ] -
- -11 January 2002
+8 February 2002
Copyright © 1994-2002 Netscape Communications Corporation.
diff --git a/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/validation_help.html b/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/validation_help.html index fe01914e01f..a00a7f2e777 100644 --- a/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/validation_help.html +++ b/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/validation_help.html @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ -25 January 2002
-Copyright © 1998-2002 The Mozilla Organization.
+Copyright © 1994-2002 Netscape Communications Corporation.
diff --git a/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/validation_help.xhtml b/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/validation_help.xhtml index fe01914e01f..a00a7f2e777 100644 --- a/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/validation_help.xhtml +++ b/mozilla/extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/validation_help.xhtml @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ -25 January 2002
-Copyright © 1998-2002 The Mozilla Organization.
+Copyright © 1994-2002 Netscape Communications Corporation.