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

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The impact in what sense? Note that openjdk will also conform to the
system wide policy.

regards,
Nikos

On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 15:24 +0000, Christopher wrote:
> What is the impact on openjdk crypto providers?
> 
> On Fri, May 20, 2016, 05:49 Jan Kurik <jkurik@xxxxxxxxxx> 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)
> > --
> > Jan Kuřík
> > Platform & Fedora Program Manager
> > Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
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