[Pki-users] This version of Firefox no longer supports the crypto web object...

[Fraser Tweedale]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 03:03:03PM +0300, Aleksey Chudov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use Firefox 40.0.3 from Fedora 21 updates repository
> 
> $ rpm -q firefox
> firefox-40.0.3-1.fc21.x86_64
> 
> Every PKI CA certificate profile containing keyGenInputImpl input produces
> warning message on a web page:
> 
> Warning: This version of Firefox no longer supports the crypto web object
> used to generate and archive keys from the browser. As a result expect
> limited functionality in this area.
> 
> But actually key generation works in my Firefox version.
> 
> What does this warning really mean?
> 
It means that Firefox's API changed.  The old, custom keygen /
crypto API was deprecated for a long time, then removed, but the
new, standardised Web Crypto API is not supported by Dogtag yet.

Hope that clarifies the situation for you.

Cheers,
Fraser

> Aleksey

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