Re: New GNOME Dependency Proposal: libgcrypt

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 5/6/07, Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com> wrote:
> Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> > 2007/5/6, Diego González <diego pemas net>:
> >> I think gnome should choose on of the libraries and stick to it instead
> >> of using the three of them.
> >
> > Summarizing, you are asking evo developers to port it to gcrypt/gnutls,
> > isn't it?
>
> No.  Doing that means you lose any chance of getting Evo/Gecko into some
> financial institutions/government agencies.
>
> One of the major points of using NSS is that it has undergone FIPS
> validation[1] three times by NIST and is currently in process of getting
> a fourth validation.  It's had years of documented testing and
> certification and this is a major selling point to some people.  Using
> NSS grants you this certification automatically, so I'd say that apps
> should start using NSS.

Another advantage of nss is that it already has a working, shared cert
storage. No need to reinvent the wheel here...