crypto consolidation status?

Ken Dreyer ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com
Sun Sep 27 05:44:31 UTC 2009


I read the wiki page[1] on Fedora's effort to consolidate all the
crypto libraries. Quite an ambitious task! FWN [2] reported on the
rather large discussion back in '07, but I didn't see any resolution.
Is this still a goal for Fedora? The main wiki page hasn't been edited
in almost a year (although the scorecard is still being maintained).

The reason I bring all of this up is that Server Name Indication has
recently been implemented into httpd's mod_ssl, but SNI is not present
in mod_nss[3]. If we abandon mod_ssl for mod_nss, we would lose this
functionality.

- Ken

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue107#Crypto_Consolidation
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360421




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