Dear fellows,<br><br>As you have probably seen, NUT has had a recent boost through the help of Eaton.<br><br>Frederic Bohe (contractor for Eaton France) has worked on Augeas, and is now working the Windows port.<br><br>Chetan Agarwal, seconded by Prashi Gandi (both from Eaton India) are working on XCP and quality / validation related projects.<br>
<br>I'm now pleased to announce that Emilien Kia (contractor for Eaton France) is joining the team to work on Mozilla NSS port.<br>A branch (ssl-nss-port) was created some time ago to track the work on this topic.<br>
But now that we have somebody to work on it, we can expect result soon (around Christmas).<br><br>For the recall, the port from OpenSSL to Mozilla NSS will:<br>- 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.<br>
- NSS is FIPS 140 certified, while OpenSSL is not. For more information on this: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140</a><br>- finally, there is a move in Linux distributions, toward standardizing on NSS everything related to certificate management.<br>
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.<br><br>Please join me into welcoming Emilien, and supporting the Eaton Opensource team ^_^<br>
<br>@Michal: I hope you will enjoy ;-)<br><br>cheers,<br>Arnaud<br>-- <br>Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - <a href="http://powerquality.eaton.com" target="_blank">http://powerquality.eaton.com</a><br>Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - <a href="http://www.networkupstools.org/" target="_blank">http://www.networkupstools.org/</a><br>
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