Key Manager is a Firefox extension for Key Generation and Certificate Enrollment.

Key Manager is a Firefox extension for Key Generation and Certificate Enrollment.

KeyManager is a stand alone PKI tool for key generation and certificate enrollment. The KeyManager tool is packaged as "chrome" based Firefox extension.

We have extended the Certificate Manager wizard in Mozilla PSM and added the capability for key generation and SCEP based certificate enrollment. Currently, PSM allows import and export of keys but does not provide interface for local key generation. In addition, the tool supports signing of proxy certificates for delegation of authorities and provides XUL based GUI for signing archive files.

The KeyManager tool has following features:

- Generation of keys, signing self-signing certificate and generation of PKCS#10 based Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
- SCEP based Certificate enrollment - it enables Firefox to acts as SCEP client. The SCEP client can invoked from other extensions and XPCOM based components.
- XPCOM API based signing of archive files, including XPI files for Mozilla add-ons for extensions (provides XUL based GUI for signtool in Mozilla NSS)
- Signing of Proxy Certificates (RFC 3820) and other users' certificates
- Exporting of private keys (in PKCS#8 and PKCS#12 formats) for soft-token, associated X.509 based public key certificate and generation of configuration file with file paths to the exported keys and certificates to be used in OpenSSL based applications (very useful if are trying to use PKCS#11 complaint engines for Smart Card, e.g. OpenSC, with OpenSSL based apps)

Requirements:

· Firefox 3.0 - 3.0.*

What's New in This Release:

This is minor upgrade to existing version. The XPCOM components are compiled with FF3-RC3 version for better compatibility.

This version works only on folowing x86 based OSes:
· Windows (Vista and XP),
· GNU/Linux (Fedora8, Fedora9, Ubuntu8.04, Suse).
· It might work on other x86 based Linux builds but I have not tested them.

Although Mac OSX and Linux 64_x86 versions are included in the add-on XPI file but the add-on is not enabled for these two OSes. I couldn't successfully load the XPCOM libraries using the Firefox 3.