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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.

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For detailed information on standards supported, see Overview of NSS. For a list of frequently asked questions, see the FAQ.

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

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If you're a developer and would like to contribute to NSS, you might want to read the documents highlevel overview of internal details of NSS and getting started with NSS.

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Documentation

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Background Information

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+ Overview of NSS
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+ Provides a brief summary of NSS and its capabilities.
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+ NSS FAQ
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+ Answers basic questions about NSS.
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+ Introduction to Public-Key Cryptography
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+ Explains the basic concepts of public-key cryptography that underlie NSS.
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+ Introduction to SSL
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+ Introduces the SSL protocol, including information about cryptographic ciphers supported by SSL and the steps involved in the SSL handshake.
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Getting Started

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+ NSS Releases
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+ This page contains information about the current and past releases of NSS.
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+ Get the source code and Build it
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+ Instructions on how to build NSS on the different supported platforms.
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+ Get Mozilla Source Code Using Mercurial
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+ Information about with working with Mercurial.
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+ Get Mozilla Source Code Using CVS (deprecated)
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+ Old deprecated CVS documentation.
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NSS APIs

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+ Introduction to Network Security Services
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+ Provides an overview of the NSS libraries and what you need to know to use them.
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+ NSS Public Functions
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+ Summarizes the APIs exported by the NSS shared libraries.
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+ NSS Reference
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+ API used to invoke SSL operations.
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+ NSS API Guidelines
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+ Explains how the libraries and code are organized, and guidelines for developing code (naming conventions, error handling, thread safety, etc.)
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+ NSS Technical Notes
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+ Links to NSS technical notes, which provide latest information about new NSS features and supplementary documentation for advanced topics in programming with NSS.
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Tools, testing, and other technical details

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+ Build Instructions for NSS
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+ Describe how to check out and build NSS releases.
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+ NSS Developer Tutorial
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+ How to make changes in NSS. Coding style, maintaining ABI compatibility.
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+ NSS Tools
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+ Tools for developing, debugging, and managing applications that use NSS.
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+ Sample Code
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+ Demonstrates how NSS can be used for cryptographic operations, certificate handling, SSL, etc.
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+ NSS 3.2 Test Suite
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+ Archived version. Describes how to run the standard NSS tests.
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+ NSS Performance Reports
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+ Archived version. Links to performance reports for NSS 3.2 and later releases.
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+ Encryption Technologies Available in NSS 3.11
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+ Archived version. Lists the cryptographic algorithms used by NSS 3.11.
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+ NSS 3.1 Loadable Root Certificates
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+ Archived version. Describes the scheme for loading root CA certificates.
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+ cert7.db
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+ Archived version. General format of the cert7.db database.
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PKCS #11 information

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CA certificates pre-loaded into NSS

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NSS is built on top of Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR)

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+ Netscape Portable Runtime
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+ NSPR project page.
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+ NSPR Reference
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+ NSPR API documentation.
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Additional Information

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Testing

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Planning

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Information on NSS planning can be found at wiki.mozilla.org, including:

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Community

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  • View Mozilla Security forums...
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{{ DiscussionList("dev-security", "mozilla.dev.security") }}

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  • View Mozilla Cryptography forums...
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{{ DiscussionList("dev-tech-crypto", "mozilla.dev.tech.crypto") }}

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