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.

Developers looking for documentation on how to use NSS should try the NSS developer wiki.

Mozilla NSS documentation can be found at [1].

Additional documentation is on the developer wiki at [2].

NSS Planning documentation is here, including:

• The fourth round of FIPS Validation, which finished in August 2007.
• PSM Certificate Prompting Scenarios
• Please visit our NSS Roadmap page here
• NSS trunk and branch status
• NSS root certificates and policies