Arnaud Quette
2010-Nov-25 12:11 UTC
[Nut-upsdev] Announce: new team member (to work on Mozilla NSS port)
Dear fellows, As you have probably seen, NUT has had a recent boost through the help of Eaton. Frederic Bohe (contractor for Eaton France) has worked on Augeas, and is now working the Windows port. Chetan Agarwal, seconded by Prashi Gandi (both from Eaton India) are working on XCP and quality / validation related projects. I'm now pleased to announce that Emilien Kia (contractor for Eaton France) is joining the team to work on Mozilla NSS port. A branch (ssl-nss-port) was created some time ago to track the work on this topic. But now that we have somebody to work on it, we can expect result soon (around Christmas). For the recall, the port from OpenSSL to Mozilla NSS will: - solve a major distribution isssue: since OpenSSL is licensed under BSD, some (most) Linux distributions were not able to ship NUT packages with SSL support enabled. NSS being available under 3 licenses, among which the GPL, this will soon be an old story. - NSS is FIPS 140 certified, while OpenSSL is not. For more information on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140 - finally, there is a move in Linux distributions, toward standardizing on NSS everything related to certificate management. That means in the end that Linux distro would be able to provide tools (textual and graphical) to manage a central certificates repository, which means easier tasks for the users. Please join me into welcoming Emilien, and supporting the Eaton Opensource team ^_^ @Michal: I hope you will enjoy ;-) cheers, Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://powerquality.eaton.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/attachments/20101125/277c652c/attachment.htm>
Michal Hlavinka
2010-Nov-29 10:37 UTC
[Nut-upsdev] Announce: new team member (to work on Mozilla NSS port)
----- "Arnaud Quette" <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:> Dear fellows, > > As you have probably seen, NUT has had a recent boost through the help > of Eaton. > > Frederic Bohe (contractor for Eaton France) has worked on Augeas, and > is now working the Windows port. > > Chetan Agarwal, seconded by Prashi Gandi (both from Eaton India) are > working on XCP and quality / validation related projects. > > I'm now pleased to announce that Emilien Kia (contractor for Eaton > France) is joining the team to work on Mozilla NSS port. > A branch (ssl-nss-port) was created some time ago to track the work on > this topic. > But now that we have somebody to work on it, we can expect result soon > (around Christmas). > > For the recall, the port from OpenSSL to Mozilla NSS will: > - solve a major distribution isssue: since OpenSSL is licensed under > BSD, some (most) Linux distributions were not able to ship NUT > packages with SSL support enabled. NSS being available under 3 > licenses, among which the GPL, this will soon be an old story. > - NSS is FIPS 140 certified, while OpenSSL is not. For more > information on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140 > - finally, there is a move in Linux distributions, toward > standardizing on NSS everything related to certificate management. > That means in the end that Linux distro would be able to provide tools > (textual and graphical) to manage a central certificates repository, > which means easier tasks for the users. > > Please join me into welcoming Emilien, and supporting the Eaton > Opensource team ^_^ > > @Michal: I hope you will enjoy ;-)great news! :)
Michal Hlavinka
2010-Nov-30 15:41 UTC
[Nut-upsdev] Announce: new team member (to work on Mozilla NSS port)
> > > For the recall, the port from OpenSSL to Mozilla NSS will: > > > - solve a major distribution isssue: since OpenSSL is licensed > under > > > BSD, some (most) Linux distributions were not able to ship NUT > > > packages with SSL support enabled. NSS being available under 3 > > > licenses, among which the GPL, this will soon be an old story. > > > - NSS is FIPS 140 certified, while OpenSSL is not. For more > > > information on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140 > > > - finally, there is a move in Linux distributions, toward > > > standardizing on NSS everything related to certificate management. > > > That means in the end that Linux distro would be able to provide > > tools > > > (textual and graphical) to manage a central certificates > repository, > > > which means easier tasks for the users. > > > > > > Please join me into welcoming Emilien, and supporting the Eaton > > > Opensource team ^_^ > > > > > > @Michal: I hope you will enjoy ;-) > > > > great news! :) > > > > indeed. > > > > btw, I've seen a Fedora forwarded report (#656440) by a user on > > Alioth' tracker (#312848). > > you should probably forward these directly to speed up the process. > > yes, but I was ill and he was faster :) > > does that mean that RedHat / Fedora are sensible to virus :-p:)> btw, can you update bugzilla #347771 to point the working branch: > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nut/branches/ssl-nss-port/done> I'll ping you back once we have something that can be tested... > One more question: do you (RH / Fedora) already have UIs for > certificates management (both textual and graphical)? > Or do you know anything that can suit the purpose?
Rob Crittenden
2010-Nov-30 20:40 UTC
[Nut-upsdev] Announce: new team member (to work on Mozilla NSS port)
Arnaud Quette wrote:> Dear fellows, > > As you have probably seen, NUT has had a recent boost through the help > of Eaton. > > Frederic Bohe (contractor for Eaton France) has worked on Augeas, and is > now working the Windows port. > > Chetan Agarwal, seconded by Prashi Gandi (both from Eaton India) are > working on XCP and quality / validation related projects. > > I'm now pleased to announce that Emilien Kia (contractor for Eaton > France) is joining the team to work on Mozilla NSS port. > A branch (ssl-nss-port) was created some time ago to track the work on > this topic. > But now that we have somebody to work on it, we can expect result soon > (around Christmas). > > For the recall, the port from OpenSSL to Mozilla NSS will: > - solve a major distribution isssue: since OpenSSL is licensed under > BSD, some (most) Linux distributions were not able to ship NUT packages > with SSL support enabled. NSS being available under 3 licenses, among > which the GPL, this will soon be an old story. > - NSS is FIPS 140 certified, while OpenSSL is not. For more information > on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140OpenSSL is FIPS-certified. See http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140val-all.htm (cert 1111 in general, RHEL 5.4 cert 1320, etc). In any case, if you run into any problems I'm to blame for nss_compat_ossl. It's been a while since I worked on it so I'm a tad rusty but ping me if you need help. rob> - finally, there is a move in Linux distributions, toward standardizing > on NSS everything related to certificate management. > That means in the end that Linux distro would be able to provide tools > (textual and graphical) to manage a central certificates repository, > which means easier tasks for the users. > > Please join me into welcoming Emilien, and supporting the Eaton > Opensource team ^_^ > > @Michal: I hope you will enjoy ;-) > > cheers, > Arnaud > -- > Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://powerquality.eaton.com > Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ > Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org > Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Nut-upsdev mailing list > Nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev