The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: Crypt::NSS::X509
DSLIP: adcro
description: Perl extension to NSS's
userid: BERNHARD (Bernhard Amann)
chapterid: 14 (Security_and_Encryption)
communities:
https://github.com/amannb/perl-nss
similar:
Crypt::X509 Crypt::OpenSSL::X509 Crypt::NSS
rationale:
This module exports a big part of the X.509 API of the Network
Security Services (NSS).
NSS is the library which is currently being used for encryption by
Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
The library allows to load x.509 certificates (and CRLs), query
certificate information and validate certificates.
The basic functionality is similar to Crypt::OpenSSL::X509 (I tried
to keep the interface very similar). However, NSS offers a wider
range of functionality in certain areas. Especially the certificate
verification functions use a much more lenient chain building
algorithm, hence allowing more certificate chains to be validated.
It also supports other features like the X.509 AIA extension.
Using this library you can get (nearly) the same results that
browsers would get when verifying a certificate. It is also easily
possible to examine the certificate chains that the library used for
validation.
Crypt::NSS itself offers only as much of the NSS X.509
functionality as necessary to establish SSL connections - this will
(very very probably) not change in the future (and much of the
functionality in this library is out of scope for that).
Current source is available at https://github.com/amannb/perl-nss
enteredby: BERNHARD (Bernhard Amann)
enteredon: Wed Nov 28 17:06:33 2012 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Crypt::NSS::
::X509 adcro Perl extension to NSS's BERNHARD
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