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

[Michal Hlavinka]

> > > 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?