----- "Arnaud Quette" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
yes, but I was ill and he was faster :) _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
