<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/29 Michal Hlavinka<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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----- "Arnaud Quette" wrote:<br>
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> Dear fellows,<br>
><br>
> As you have probably seen, NUT has had a recent boost through the help<br>
> of Eaton.<br>
><br>
> Frederic Bohe (contractor for Eaton France) has worked on Augeas, 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 on<br>
> this topic.<br>
> But now that we have somebody to work on it, we can expect result 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 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>
</div></div>great news! :)<br></blockquote></div><br>indeed.<br><br>btw, I've seen a Fedora forwarded report (#656440) by a user on Alioth' tracker (#312848).<br>you should probably forward these directly to speed up the process.<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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