Thanks for this quick (and very clear) answer. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 19:05, Scott Cantor <canto...@osu.edu> wrote: ... > > So, all that said.... > ... > > Is there an official way to activate it or am I doomed to manually patch > the > > build process ? > > Looks like it's a bug at this point. I have a release coming later this > year, and I'll at least fix that and/or include any patches you can > provide. > > I would also note that the new work I just did on eliptic curve support > does > not include NSS. The system is supposed to fail gracefully on that stuff, > so > it shouldn't break any existing support, just not handle the new stuff. But > again, that's untested. > > I guess I should add that I considered raising a question as to whether to > continue to maintain the NSS and WinCrypt support, given that I can't > maintain them or maintain feature parity. One person showing up isn't > likely > to convince me to keep it, but one's better than none. ;-) > > Well NSS is used at least by RedHat and Suse and is recommended by latest LSB to standardize on as Linux reference crypto library. Consequently interested parties may evolve soon(or not). (ref: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation )
Is it interesting that I take a look at how to patch the configure process to use NSS, or am I the only person on Earth concerned by this support ? Thanks for the help. -- Christophe
