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Description of problem:

Currently NSS does not have SMIME support for ECC certificates. Having this support would allow the creation of SMIME encrypted and signed emails using products such as Thunderbird.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

latest


How reproducible:

Every time.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to create a signed and encrypted email in TBird with an ECC cert



Actual results:

The process will fail, most notably when trying to select a suitable ECC certificate for encryption.

Expected results:

We should be able to create signed and encrypted emails with TBird or other NSS supported email clients. Especially support for ECC smart cards is desirable.


Additional info:

Currently there exists a collection of 3rd party community patches that suports this functionality. I have myself tested these and gotten themt o work. I imagine the thrust of this bug would be to review and deploy some combination of these patches.

Marking as a duplicate of bug 752980 which should have fixed this issue - although we no longer ship Thunderbird in RHEL 7, support for this would have to be confirmed using NSS command line utilities, or the evolution mail client.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 752980 ***