Re: New GNOME Dependency Proposal: libgcrypt

[Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com>]

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.

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/fips/