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 NSS needs to support external biometrics to unlock tokens. Today there are limitation in the PKCS#11 specifications which make it hard to replace the traditional smartcard PIN UI prompt with an external biometric operation. For example, we would like to unlock smartcards using a fingerprint reader or retina scanner.
+== Capture from NSS 3.12 planning ==
+Some of these items are already documented above. Some (many) of these items will be put off to the next release.
+* LibPKIX support
+** EV Certificates
+** OCSP Cache
+* Shared DB
+** Could add requirement for a new FIPS validation
+* SSL
+** Server side SNI
+** Support curve based certificate selection for ECC certs.
+** Server side DHE
+** Support single use keys
+** OCSP stapling (requires OCSP Cache).
+* interoperability
+** capi PKCS 11
+** mac key ring PKCS 11
+** pem file PKCS 11
+* ECC for S/MIME
+* Language bindings for other languages (scripting languages like perl/python/php
+* Improved tools
+** certutil
+** pkcs 7 cert packager
+** better diagnostics for pk12util
+** rationalized options
+** localization of tools
+* Phone home root certs
+* Better NSS documentations
+** tools (Unix man pages)
+** API's
+** HW security modules (tools and test suites).
 = Schedules =