<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/29 Michal Hlavinka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhlavink@redhat.com">mhlavink@redhat.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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----- "Arnaud Quette" <<a href="mailto:aquette.dev@gmail.com">aquette.dev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> 2010/11/29 Michal Hlavinka<br>
> ----- "Arnaud Quette" wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Dear fellows,<br>
> ><br>
> > As you have probably seen, NUT has had a recent boost through the<br>
> help<br>
> > of Eaton.<br>
> ><br>
> > Frederic Bohe (contractor for Eaton France) has worked on Augeas,<br>
> and<br>
> > is now working the Windows port.<br>
> ><br>
> > Chetan Agarwal, seconded by Prashi Gandi (both from Eaton India) are<br>
> > working on XCP and quality / validation related projects.<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm now pleased to announce that Emilien Kia (contractor for Eaton<br>
> > 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<br>
> on<br>
> > this topic.<br>
> > But now that we have somebody to work on it, we can expect result<br>
> soon<br>
> > (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<br>
> > BSD, some (most) Linux distributions were not able to ship NUT<br>
> > packages with SSL support enabled. NSS being available under 3<br>
> > licenses, among which the GPL, this will soon be an old story.<br>
> > - NSS is FIPS 140 certified, while OpenSSL is not. For more<br>
> > information on this: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140</a><br>
> > - finally, there is a move in Linux distributions, toward<br>
> > standardizing on NSS everything related to certificate management.<br>
> > That means in the end that Linux distro would be able to provide<br>
> tools<br>
> > (textual and graphical) to manage a central certificates repository,<br>
> > which means easier tasks for the users.<br>
> ><br>
> > Please join me into welcoming Emilien, and supporting the Eaton<br>
> > Opensource team ^_^<br>
> ><br>
> > @Michal: I hope you will enjoy ;-)<br>
><br>
> great news! :)<br>
><br>
> indeed.<br>
><br>
> btw, I've seen a Fedora forwarded report (#656440) by a user on<br>
> Alioth' tracker (#312848).<br>
> you should probably forward these directly to speed up the process.<br>
<br>
</div></div>yes, but I was ill and he was faster :)<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">does that mean that RedHat / Fedora are sensible to virus :-p<br><br>btw, can you update bugzilla #347771 to point the working branch:<br>
<a href="http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nut/branches/ssl-nss-port/">http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nut/branches/ssl-nss-port/</a><br><br>I'll ping you back once we have something that can be tested...<br>One more question: do you (RH / Fedora) already have UIs for certificates management (both textual and graphical)?<br>
Or do you know anything that can suit the purpose?<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>
Debian Developer - <a href="http://www.debian.org" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org</a><br>Free Software Developer - <a href="http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/" target="_blank">http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/</a><br><br>