On Tuesday 01 September 2009 21:15:31 Arnaud Quette wrote: > Hi Michal, > > 2009/9/1 Arjen de Korte > > > Citeren Michal Hlavinka > > > > We would like to use nss for cryptography instead of OpenSSL. Reason for > > > >> this > >> is mostly for FIPS 140 validation. > >> > >> See: > >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation > >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CryptoConsolidationEval > >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CryptoConsolidationScorecard > >> > >> also OpenSuSE prefers to use the nss for cryptography for the same > >> reason ( > >> http://en.opensuse.org/SharedCertStore ) > > > > The above makes lots of sense. > > very interesting indeed! > even more knowing that I was considering a gnutls port (mostly for > licensing issues)... > thanks a lot for these pointers ;-) > > > Would it be possible to use nss instead of openssl? > > > > > > Most likely, yes. > > > > #ifdef blocks would be enough. I can prepare patches. What's your > > opinion? > > > > > > I would certainly welcome an effort to standardize here, so please > > provide patches if you have any available. Preferably for the SVN trunk > > version, but if you only have them for older versions, I could probably > > port them to the latest version. > > seconded, your work here would be very much appreciated.
Which way is preferred? Complete OpenSSL replacement or new build option only? I'm little overloaded these days, but I hope I'll start with this next week. Cheers, Michal _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
