On 5/6/07, Christopher Aillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alberto Ruiz wrote: > > 2007/5/6, Diego González <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I think gnome should choose on of the libraries and stick to it instead > >> of using the three of them. > > > > Summarizing, you are asking evo developers to port it to gcrypt/gnutls, > > isn't it? > > No. Doing that means you lose any chance of getting Evo/Gecko into some > financial institutions/government agencies. > > One of the major points of using NSS is that it has undergone FIPS > validation[1] three times by NIST and is currently in process of getting > a fourth validation. It's had years of documented testing and > certification and this is a major selling point to some people. Using > NSS grants you this certification automatically, so I'd say that apps > should start using NSS. >
Another advantage of nss is that it already has a working, shared cert storage. No need to reinvent the wheel here... _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
