Re: Waking the dead: LibSoup and NSS



Hi,

thanks Dan for the information.

On Wednesday, 04 August 2010 Dan Winship wrote:
> On 08/04/2010 12:00 PM, Christian Hilberg wrote:
> > The GnuTLS docs indicate that PKCS #11 support might still be
> > experimental
> There have been patches floating around for years, but AFAIK there has
> only been support in the gnutls mainline for about 2 weeks now. :-)

Okay, this *is* bleeding-edge. :-)

> > This all being said, I'd like to get to know about the current status of
> > LibSoup regarding support for being built with libnss (latest information
> > I found dates back from 2008).
> The plan is to add TLS support to GSocket in gio
> (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588189), with support for
> client-side certificates and PKCS#11, and pluggable gnutls and NSS
> [...]
> finishing up NSS support is going to require some changes to the public
> APIs to work with NSS's unique worldview (eg, the central certificate
> db, etc).

I'm afraid we cannot handle this within our project budget... really sorry, it 
could have been a nice addition to the libs. We will have to resort to an 
already working solution then - whichever one this might be.

Best regards,

	Christian

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