Chapter 7. Client Support

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Mozilla
2.1. General
2.2. Mozilla
2.3. Netscape 4
2.4. Opera
3. Microsoft
3.1. Domaincontroller
3.2. Smartcard Logon
3.3. Keystore
3.4. Internet Explorer
3.5. Outlook
3.6. Outlook Express

1. Introduction

The biggest problems of PKIs are like for all other big infrastructures the clients. The big advantage of PKIs is that all vendors accept the basic standards. The big disadvantage is that the area of PKI-enabled clients changes very fast and some vendors are in a very early implementation phase or have products with different behaviour.

If this sounds confusing then you can believe us it is confusing. Therefore you can find here some descriptions for the different browsers and the common problems with these browsers. If you have additional problems or other informations then please mail us. We try to support as many client as possible but sometimes a new release can outdate a complete description.

Figure 7.1. Request a certificate

You will see this screen if you try to request a certificate
          with OpenCA.