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
OpenSSL is FIPS-certified. See
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140val-all.htm
(cert 1111 in general, RHEL 5.4 cert 1320, etc).
In any case, if you run into any problems I'm to blame for
nss_compat_ossl. It's been a while since I worked on it so I'm a tad
rusty but ping me if you need help.
rob
- 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 ;-)
cheers,
Arnaud
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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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