----- "Arnaud Quette" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear fellows, > > As you have probably seen, NUT has had a recent boost through the help > of Eaton. > > Frederic Bohe (contractor for Eaton France) has worked on Augeas, and > is now working the Windows port. > > Chetan Agarwal, seconded by Prashi Gandi (both from Eaton India) are > working on XCP and quality / validation related projects. > > I'm now pleased to announce that Emilien Kia (contractor for Eaton > France) is joining the team to work on Mozilla NSS port. > A branch (ssl-nss-port) was created some time ago to track the work on > this topic. > But now that we have somebody to work on it, we can expect result soon > (around Christmas). > > For the recall, the port from OpenSSL to Mozilla NSS will: > - solve a major distribution isssue: since OpenSSL is licensed under > BSD, some (most) Linux distributions were not able to ship NUT > packages with SSL support enabled. NSS being available under 3 > licenses, among which the GPL, this will soon be an old story. > - NSS is FIPS 140 certified, while OpenSSL is not. For more > information on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140 > - finally, there is a move in Linux distributions, toward > standardizing on NSS everything related to certificate management. > That means in the end that Linux distro would be able to provide tools > (textual and graphical) to manage a central certificates repository, > which means easier tasks for the users. > > Please join me into welcoming Emilien, and supporting the Eaton > Opensource team ^_^ > > @Michal: I hope you will enjoy ;-)
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