Security/CryptoEngineering

Projects

NSS

The crypto library that powers Firefox

Improve Developer Ergonomics

• 2016 Q4: Change build systems to Gyp
• 2016 Q4: Move reviews to Phabricator
• 2016 Q4: Semi-Automatic Branch Uplifts to Mozilla-Central

Cleanup

• 2016 Q4: Support ARM and ARM64 testing in TaskCluster
• 2016 Q4: Support fuzzing the internal interfaces
• 2016 Q4: Port the AES-NI Linux-x86 assembly to NASM and cross-compile for Windows and OSX

New Functions

• 2016 Q4: Support TLS v1.3
• 2016 Q4: Integrate BoGo's integration tests into NSS builds
• 2016 Q4: MWOS Support Argon2
• 2016 Q4: MWOS Add new NSS demonstration code
• 2017 Q1: Post-Quantum Research

PSM

• 2016 Q4: Rearchitect PSM/NSS interaction to eliminate shutdown crashes
• 2016 Q4 / 2017 Q1: SHA-1 Shutoff Plan

Web Authentication

• 2016 Q2: FIDO U2F v1.1 JS API landed behind a pref. Test at https://u2f.bin.coffee/
• 2016 Q4: Support USB HID U2F devices on Linux
• 2016 Q4: Draft WebAuthn JS API landed behind a pref, using the Soft Token
• 2017 Q1: Support USB HID U2F devices on Windows / Mac OS X