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Idea #14632: Work with Fedora on Consolidating Crypto on NSS

Written by schmichael the 20 Oct 08 at 19:42. Category: Security. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Fedora has an excellent initiative to consolidate core applications on Mozilla's NSS[1] crypto library.[2]

This would significantly ease security management for system administrators and hopefully improve SSO systems for end users.

It would be great to see the distros work together to make this happen as its really not something we can expect to be solved upstream.

[1] http://developer.mozilla.org/en/NSS
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation

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Written by schmichael the 20 Oct 08 at 19:42.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 20 Oct 08 at 21:24
Yeah, then when we have it consolidated we can put lots and lots of effort into auditing it.
I would love it to have the Bruce Schneier stamp of approval. ;)

schmichael wrote on the 20 Oct 08 at 21:46
@Eldmannen:

While I think everyone would love Bruce's stamp of approval, the beauty of NSS is that its already been audited and validated:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/FIPS_Validation


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