DB design document

[Derek Atkins]

Yea, thanks.  I'm looking at NSS now.

One concern after about 30 seconds of reading is that "NSS utilizes
Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) libraries as a portability interface
and implementation that provides consistent cross-platform semantics
for network I/O and threading models."  This seems to imply that we
would need to depend on the NSPR as well if we wanted to use NSS.

My other concern is that I haven't seen any distributions actually
delivering NSS and NSPR.  In addition, I have no idea how NSPR would
interact with other packages that we would want to use.

I suppose that in some people's minds, the added complexity is worth
the license.  Blah.

-derek, who has been spending too much time fighting political battles
 this week at the IETF.

Patrick Spinler <spinler.patrick@mayo.edu> writes:

> I'm not a core developer here by any means, but at my reading, this does
> indeed look promising.  Quoting from the FAQ:
> 
> > NSS is licensed under both the Mozilla Public License and the
> > GNU General Public License. You may choose to use the code either 
> > under the terms of the MPL or under the terms of the GPL. 
> 
> and 
> 
> > NSS supports SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, 
> > PKCS #12, S/MIME, and X.509 v3 certificates.
> 
> Looks like it does the job, and it is license compatible.
> 
> Thanks Gary !
> 
> -- Pat
> 
> Gary E Bickford wrote:
> > 
> > This might be of interest as an alternative to OpenSSL.  I didn't read
> > it in enough detail to know for sure.
> > 
> > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/faq.html
> > 
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