2010/12/7 Michal Hlavinka <[email protected]> > On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 14:12:01 you wrote: > > 2010/11/30 Michal Hlavinka <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > 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 :) > > > > > > > > does that mean that RedHat / Fedora are sensible to virus :-p > > > : > > > :) > > > : > > > > btw, can you update bugzilla #347771 to point the working branch: > > > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nut/branches/ssl-nss-port/ > > > > > > done > > > > > > > I'll ping you back once we have something that can be tested... > > > > One more question: do you (RH / Fedora) already have UIs for > > > > certificates management (both textual and graphical)? > > > > Or do you know anything that can suit the purpose? > > > > > > From what I know, there is nothing definite yet, but Mozilla PSM > > > is a candidate. I wanted to ask my coleague who knows more about > > > this whether information on > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation#Common_UI_framewo > > > rk is up to date, but he is attending some conference so he's > > > offline right now. > > > > we're interested in this UI topic, so we would welcome such info from > your > > fellow. > > I was finally able to ask him, but with no useful output. They were playing > a > little with mozilla's PSM, but no usable output exists. >
I've sent a mail, last Friday (Dec 3rd) with some interesting NSS pointers (subject of the mail). I've pointed some Suse related work around NSS manager / PSM, as a standalone app. cheers, Arnaud
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