[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 16/16] use NSS for SSL operations

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Tue Jun 15 19:21:44 UTC 2010


John Dennis wrote:
> This patch removes the use of OpenSSL (via Python's native libraries) 
> for SSL operations and substitutes NSS for SSL. We were already using 
> NSS in some places, now it's consistently universal.
> 
> Be aware that this patch depends on a an upgrade of python-nss to 0.9.
> 
> The patch also fixes a problem with certification validation, previously 
> we had not been fully validating a certificate and as such it was a 
> security vulnerability.

ack, pushed to master. Note that the new python-nss is only in our own 
repo right now 
(http://jdennis.fedorapeople.org/ipa-devel/ipa-devel-fedora.repo)

rob




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