PSM:MozAppsWithSharedNSSDB

Introduction

Planning document for the NSS shared database feature in all Mozilla applications. The work is to be done in module PSM (core code).

Firefox et. al. use NSS for crypto operations (SSL etc.). Each Mozilla application profile directory contains several NSS database files which contain personal certificates, the key to encrypt remembered passwords, trust information for certificate authorities, information about installed external crypto hardware (e.g. smartcards), etc.

As of today, all the above must be managed for each application and profile separately. It's desirable to share this information across multiple applications and profiles. By default, this storage shall be user specific across all NSS based applications. This page is about the required changes to Mozilla/PSM in order to make this sharing happen.