On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:25:30AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 27, Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 07:20:55PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > The reason is that the kind of entities which require FIPS 140 probably > > > also tend to require corporate vendor support, which we do not provide. > > What is FIPS 140 and why is this important? > It is a certification required by USG and many financial customers. > > > > If building a package with NSS instead of other libraries does not > > > causes relevant negative side effects then I think we should do it to > > > benefit from the improvements which NSS is receiving and to help the > > > process. > > No support for /etc/ssl? > NSS uses a different method to store certificates, but I do not think > that this is a serious problem.
Fedora supposedly is working on a pkcs#11 module to read from /etc/ssl. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110427082937.ga10...@glandium.org
