[Nut-upsdev] Announce: new team member (to work on Mozilla NSS port)

[Arnaud Quette]

2010/12/7 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com>

> On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 14:12:01 you wrote:
> > 2010/11/30 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com>
> >
> > > > > > 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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