Re: F25 Self Contained Change: NSS enforces the system-wide crypto policy

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On 20.5.2016 11:48, Jan Kurik wrote:
> = Proposed Self Contained Change: NSS enforces the system-wide crypto policy =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NSSCryptoPolicies
> 
> Change owner(s):
> * Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav AT redhat DOT com>
> 
> As it is now, the System-wide crypto policy in F24 is only enforced by
> the OpenSSL and GnuTLS TLS libraries. To harmonize crypto in Fedora,
> NSS is enhanced to respect the settings of the system-wide crypto
> policy as well.
> 
> == Detailed Description ==
> As it is now, the System-wide crypto policy in F24 is only enforced by
> the OpenSSL and GnuTLS TLS libraries. To harmonize crypto in Fedora,
> NSS is enhanced to respect the settings of the system-wide crypto
> policy as well.
> After that change the administrator should be assured that any
> application that uses NSS will follow a policy that adheres to the
> configured profile.
> 
> 
> == Scope ==
> * Proposal owners:
> The change requires modifying the NSS library to read a policy
> generated by the crypto-policy package.
> 
> * Other developers:
> There are no required actions by other developers. The change requires
> only targeted changes to NSS.
> 
> * Release engineering:
> No actions required.
> 
> * Policies and guidelines:
> - The packaging guidelines for crypto policies need to be modified to
> include NSS in the list of libraries supporting the policies.
> - The text "(note that adherence to the system-wide policies is work
> in progress for NSS libraries)" must be removed
> - The text "Currently the policies are restricted to applications
> using GnuTLS and OpenSSL" must be changed to include NSS.
> 
> * Trademark approval:
> N/A (not needed for this Change)

Hooray!

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