Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]

2000-09-19 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
According to a previous post, previous versions of NSS (using BSAFE as engine) have been around for a few years on server products: it's not a brand new development. Anyway, a good feature in NSS still missing in OpenSSL is the PKCS#11 support for hardware tokens. Enzo - Original Message

Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]

2000-09-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I remember you expressing such sentiments on the mozilla security list some months ago. But, there are problems with the OpenSSL license. And not enough crossplatform support. And, I'm a big believer in multiple independent implementations. Ben Laurie

Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]

2000-09-19 Thread Ben Laurie
William Allen Simpson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I remember you expressing such sentiments on the mozilla security list some months ago. But, there are problems with the OpenSSL license. As far as I can tell, the problems are invented rather than real. At least I can't

Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]

2000-09-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ben Laurie wrote: As far as I can tell, the problems are invented rather than real. At least I can't recall any real problems except "it isn't the licence we want it to be". I was not aware that OpenSSL had changed to be compatible with GPL. And I

Qualcomm CEO Loses Laptop

2000-09-19 Thread Lyle Seaman
from http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38855,00.html --- Jacobs told people at the conference that the IBM laptop, which he had used for a slide show-type presentation focusing on Qualcomm's (QCOM) wireless telecommunications technology, contained proprietary information that

Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]

2000-09-19 Thread Ben Laurie
William Allen Simpson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ben Laurie wrote: As far as I can tell, the problems are invented rather than real. At least I can't recall any real problems except "it isn't the licence we want it to be". I was not aware that OpenSSL had changed

Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]

2000-09-19 Thread William H. Geiger III
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/18/00 at 02:09 PM, Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: William Allen Simpson wrote: Fallout from the early RSA release into public domain, the references to BSAFE have been replaced, and a bunch of stuff are GPL. Is there a team of folks doing independent

Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]

2000-09-19 Thread Rich Salz
the OpenSSL project was not accepting code from US sources. Has this policy changed? Yes. The various members of the openssl-core team either agree that the current regulations remove their concern; or feel that even though there are issues it's not worth dealing with now US

Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]

2000-09-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Now, I didn't start this thread to argue about licenses. I just wanted folks to review code, should they be so inclined. So, this is my last comment. Sorry that someone took umbrage. Ben Laurie wrote: William Allen Simpson wrote: I was not aware that