[Swan-dev] [cryptography] Announcing Mozilla::PKIX, a New Certificate Verification Library (fwd)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:35:35AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:06:28AM -0400, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:40:40AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 07:22:51PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > > > wonder if we can use this instead of the legacy x509 code....
> > > 
> > > I would prefer avoiding having to maintain yet another crypto library.
> > > Needing openssl and gnutls26 is enough thank you.  Routers have no need
> > > to run firefox and hence have no need to have libnss installed, so can
> > > we try to keep it that way?
> > 
> > Libreswan already depends on NSS for crypto, not openssl.
> 
> Well openswan didn't.  We haven't upgraded yet.
> 
> I would highly suggest reconsidering the use of libnss.

I am just looking at the fact that if you want to get a product fips
certified, you have to deal with checking openssl, gnutls and nss.
That's a lot of duplication.

Is NSS really that good?

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Len Sorensen