--- title: Descripcion general sobre NSS slug: Descripcion_general_sobre_NSS translation_of: Mozilla/Projects/NSS/Overview ---

Proven Application Security Architecture

Si usted busca incluir soporte para SSL, S/MIME, u otro estándar de seguridad en internet en su aplicación, puede hacer uso de los servicios de seguridad en red (NSS) para implementar los aspectos referidos a seguridad que necesite. NSS provee una implementación de código abierto completa de librerías criptogŕáficas usadas por AOL, Red Hat, Sun, y otras compañías en una gran variedad de productos, incluidos los siguientes:

The Mozilla client products, including Mozilla Suite, Firefox, and Thunderbird.
The Netscape browsers
AOL Communicator and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
Open source client applications such as Evolution, Gaim, and OpenOffice.org 2.0.
Server products from Red Hat: Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Certificate System, and the mod_nss SSL module for the Apache web server.
Server products from the Sun Java Enterprise System, including Sun Java System Web Server, Sun Java System Directory Server, Sun Java System Portal Server, Sun Java System Messaging Server, and Sun Java System Application Server.

NSS includes a framework to which developers and OEMs can contribute patches, such as assembler code, to optimize performance on their platforms. NSS 3.x has been certified on 18 platforms.

For more detailed information about NSS, see the NSS Project Page and NSS FAQ.

Source code for a Java interface to NSS is available in the Mozilla CVS tree. For details, see Network Security Services for Java.

NSS makes use of Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR), a platform-neutral open-source API for system functions designed to facilitate cross-platform development. Like NSS, NSPR has been battle-tested in multiple products. For more information, see NSPR Project Page.