2010/11/29 Michal Hlavinka > > ----- "Arnaud Quette" 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 ;-) > > great news! :) >
indeed. btw, I've seen a Fedora forwarded report (#656440) by a user on Alioth' tracker (#312848). you should probably forward these directly to speed up the process. cheers, Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://powerquality.eaton.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
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