NSS

Network Security Services

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards. For detailed information on standards supported, see Overview of NSS.

NSS is available under the Mozilla Public License, the GNU General Public License, and the GNU Lesser General Public License. For information on downloading NSS releases as tar files, see Download PKI Source.

NSS documentation can be found at [1].

Building and Testing NSS for Android can be found here

NSS Planning documentation is here, including:

• The fourth round of FIPS Validation, which finished in August 2007.
• PSM Certificate Prompting Scenarios
• NSS root certificates and policies
• NSS Development
• Bug Triage
• Release Management
• NSS Try Server