<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/30 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;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> > > For the recall, the port from OpenSSL to Mozilla NSS will:<br>
> > > - solve a major distribution isssue: since OpenSSL is licensed<br>
> 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<br>
> 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>
> yes, but I was ill and he was faster :)<br>
><br>
> does that mean that RedHat / Fedora are sensible to virus :-p<br>
<br>
:)<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/" target="_blank">http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nut/branches/ssl-nss-port/</a><br>
<br>
</div></div>done<br>
<div class="im"><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<br>
> certificates management (both textual and graphical)?<br>
> Or do you know anything that can suit the purpose?<br>
<br>
</div>From what I know, there is nothing definite yet, but Mozilla PSM<br>
is a candidate. I wanted to ask my coleague who knows more about<br>
this whether information on<br>
<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation#Common_UI_framework" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation#Common_UI_framework</a><br>
is up to date, but he is attending some conference so he's<br>
offline right now.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>we're interested in this UI topic, so we would welcome such info from your fellow.<br><br>I've made some investigation, and not found anything fancy for UI.<br>
PSM seems not packaged, nor easily available as a standalone module, nor easy to checkout, ...<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>
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