Fedora Crypto Consolidation Project

[Robert Relyea]

Steve Grubb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to announce a new Fedora Project that will span several distro 
> releases and outline the reasons why we are starting this project. I believe 
> this issue affects the whole Open Source Community. But don't think anyone 
> has explained all the issues.
>
>
>   

> We're looking for people interested in enabling NSS in their packages and 
> feeding the changes upstream.
>   
A list of packages that need to be looked at can now be found at: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CryptoConsolidationScorecard

Take a look if you are interested in helping out!

bob

> For those unfamiliar with NSS, its the Secure Sockets library in FireFox. 
> There are already several applications using it such as Thunderbird and 
> evolution. More information about it can be found here:  
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
>
>
> For more information about this Fedora Project, please see:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation
>
>
> Some developer resources:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/nss_compat_ossl
>
>
> And a comparison of crypto libraries:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CryptoConsolidationEval
>
>
> -Steve Grubb
>
>   

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