Future Fedora Development

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 11:51 -0700, Steve G wrote:
> >> - multiple digests operation (openssl, gnutls, nss .. some programs are
> >>   now linked with *all* avalaible implemntations 8-0 ),
> >
> >Yeah, I agree.  OpenSSL seems to be the most comprehensive, but
> >its licence stinks and this is why gnutls was written in the first
> >place.  Now that Mozilla adopted the triple MPL/GPL/LGPL license,
> >there's no reason to keep gnutls any more.
> 
> We need to try to streamline the number of SSL implementations for another
> reason, FIPS 140-2 certifications. I think that FIPS 200 will be applicable next
> year which pulls in the requirement of all crypto being certified.
> 
> -Steve

Which SSL implementation do you plan to standardize on? Has any
potential licensing conflicts with OpenSSL and GPL programs been
discussed?


Rahul