Le lundi 27 janvier 2014 19:28:51 UTC+1, Kathleen Wilson a écrit :
> Draft Design Doc posted by Ryan Sleevi regarding Chrome migrating from 
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> NSS to OpenSSL:
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ML11ZyyMpnAr6clIAwWrXD53pQgNR-DppMYwt9XvE6s/edit?pli=1
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> "Switching to OpenSSL, however, has the opportunity to bring significant 
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> performance and stability advantages to iOS, Mac, Windows, and ChromeOS 
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> immediately out of the gate. Switching Linux to use OpenSSL will take 
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> longer, due to the desire to continue to support PKCS#11-based smart 
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> card authentication, which will require more work. The biggest risk/cost 
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> to such a switch is no longer being able to help Firefox benefit from 
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> these efforts, nor benefiting from Firefox's efforts in these areas."
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> Kathleen

Nice work, 

I am not clear on the cons for OpenSSL:

Limited-to-no extension points for dealing with networking fetching (AIA, CRL, 
OCSP)

OCSP and CRL are available ? What do you mean with this sentence. Which may be 
a good point for security coverage.

Thanks
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