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Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enzo Michelangeli)
Tue Sep 19 10:08:40 2000
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From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
To: <cryptography@c2.net>
Cc: "\"Ben Laurie\"" <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:54:37 +0800
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According to a previous post, previous versions of NSS (using BSAFE as
engine) have been around for a few years on server products: it's not a
brand new development.
Anyway, a good feature in NSS still missing in OpenSSL is the PKCS#11
support for hardware tokens.
Enzo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Laurie" <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
Cc: <cryptography@c2.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 4:09
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]
> William Allen Simpson wrote:
> >
> > Fallout from the early RSA release into public domain, the references
> > to BSAFE have been replaced, and a bunch of stuff are GPL. Is there
> > a team of folks doing independent code review?
> >
> > Since this is likely to show up on a lot of systems, and any bugs
> > will plague us for a long time, this seems to me to be a time for
> > serious cooperation.
>
> What they _should_ do is use OpenSSL and work on that, instead of
> reinventing the wheel.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben.
>
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