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Re: PKCS11 for OpenSSL, anyone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enzo Michelangeli)
Mon Aug 7 20:32:58 2000
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From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
To: "Bob Lord" <lord@netscape.com>
Cc: <cryptography@c2.net>, <coderpunks@toad.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 07:04:51 +0800
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I forgot to say that the problem with the current version (NSS 3.0) is that
it requires BSAFE to build; the version 3.1 is opensource, but is under
development and the RTM is expected for mid October
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/plan_3_1.html ).
Enzo
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Lord <lord@netscape.com>
To: Enzo Michelangeli <em@who.net>
Cc: <cryptography@c2.net>; <coderpunks@toad.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: PKCS11 for OpenSSL, anyone?
> This may not be common knowledge, but NSS has been used in the Netscape
(now
> branded iPlanet) servers for years. Other than the RSA algorithm, are
there
> specific things missing? We'd like to hear about them, especially on the
> newsgroup (See the link at the top of our PKI page
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/).
>
> Regards,
> -Bob
>
> Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
>
> > Is anyone aware of patches to the current OpenSSL distribution to add
PKCS11
> > support? Mozilla NSS 3.1 has it, but the product is still at an early
> > stage...
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Enzo
>
