Re: crypto consolidation status

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On Út, 2013-12-03 at 22:28 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 12/03/2013 07:58 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> 
> > I'd suggest to follow the "Medium term goals" from the page. That means
> > to choose the backend from one of the following libraries (in the order
> > of preference).
> >       1. NSS
> >       2. GNUTLS (with nettle as crypto backend, but nettle never used
> >          directly by applications)
> >       3. OpenSSL
> >       4. libgcrypt
> 
> I hope that both OpenJDK crypto providers are acceptable as well (one is 
> a wrapper around NSS, the other one is a separate implementation, mostly 
> in Java).
The wrapper around NSS clearly is acceptable. On the other hand the
separate implementation is not planned to be FIPS validated in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux which might be a problem.

-- 
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
                                              Turkish proverb
(You'll never know whether the road is wrong though.)

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