"Jean-Marc Desperrier" wrote:
> Brian Smith wrote:
> > The kind of improvement you described above will be made to resolve
> > Bug 443386 and/or Bug 638966.
> 
> I think Bug 638966 is slightly different, it's about permanently
> storing the secret keys in the NSS db (I don't know if that's
> really possible, typically the db only stores privates keys).

Softoken may have to be enhanced to support storing Sync (or generic) keys for 
this to work.

> Doing this could solve bug 443386 except that SRP is not a FIPS
> approved algorithm so I'm sure if the module ought to still be
> able to do SRP when in FIPS mode.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443386#c19 (comment 19). The 
same would apply to SRP.

> You are considering to remove PBKDF2 ? If so, the encrypted result
> will be incompatible before/after the move?

PBKDF2 was already replcaed with HKDF.

- Brian
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