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---
title: Network Security Services
slug: Mozilla/Projects/NSS
tags:
- JSS
- NSS
- NeedsMigration
- NeedsTranslation
- TopicStub
translation_of: Mozilla/Projects/NSS
---
<p><strong>Network Security Services</strong> (<strong>NSS</strong>) 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.</p>
<p>For detailed information on standards supported, see <a href="/en-US/docs/Overview_of_NSS" title="Overview_of_NSS">Overview of NSS</a>. For a list of frequently asked questions, see the <a href="/en-US/docs/NSS_FAQ" title="NSS_FAQ">FAQ</a>.</p>
<p>NSS is available under the Mozilla Public License. For information on downloading NSS releases as tar files, see <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS_Sources_Building_Testing">Download PKI Source</a>.</p>
<p>If you're a developer and would like to contribute to NSS, you might want to read the documents <a href="/en-US/docs/An_overview_of_NSS_Internals" title="/en-US/docs/An_overview_of_NSS_Internals">highlevel overview of internal details of NSS</a> and <a href="/en-US/docs/Getting_Started_With_NSS" title="/en-US/docs/Getting_Started_With_NSS">getting started with NSS</a>.</p>
<table class="topicpage-table">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<h2 class="Documentation" id="Documentation" name="Documentation">Documentation</h2>
<h3 id="Background_Information">Background Information</h3>
<dl>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/Overview_of_NSS">Overview of NSS</a></dt>
<dd>
Provides a brief summary of NSS and its capabilities.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/NSS_FAQ">NSS FAQ</a></dt>
<dd>
Answers basic questions about NSS.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/Introduction_to_Public-Key_Cryptography">Introduction to Public-Key Cryptography</a></dt>
<dd>
Explains the basic concepts of public-key cryptography that underlie NSS.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/Introduction_to_SSL">Introduction to SSL</a></dt>
<dd>
Introduces the SSL protocol, including information about cryptographic ciphers supported by SSL and the steps involved in the SSL handshake.</dd>
</dl>
<h3 id="Getting_Started">Getting Started</h3>
<dl>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_Releases" title="NSS_releases">NSS Releases</a></dt>
<dd>
This page contains information about the current and past releases of NSS.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/NSS_Sources_Building_Testing">Get the source code and Build it</a></dt>
<dd>
Instructions on how to build NSS on the different supported platforms.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Source_Code/Mercurial">Get Mozilla Source Code Using Mercurial</a></dt>
<dd>
Information about with working with Mercurial.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Source_Code/CVS">Get Mozilla Source Code Using CVS (deprecated)</a></dt>
<dd>
Old deprecated CVS documentation.</dd>
</dl>
<h3 id="NSS_APIs">NSS APIs</h3>
<dl>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/Introduction_to_Network_Security_Services">Introduction to Network Security Services</a></dt>
<dd>
Provides an overview of the NSS libraries and what you need to know to use them.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="NSS/SSL_functions">NSS Public Functions</a></dt>
<dd>
Summarizes the APIs exported by the NSS shared libraries.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/NSS_reference">NSS Reference</a></dt>
<dd>
API used to invoke SSL operations.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="NSS/NSS_API_GUIDELINES">NSS API Guidelines</a></dt>
<dd>
Explains how the libraries and code are organized, and guidelines for developing code (naming conventions, error handling, thread safety, etc.)</dd>
<dt>
<a href="NSS/nss_tech_notes">NSS Technical Notes</a></dt>
<dd>
Links to NSS technical notes, which provide latest information about new NSS features and supplementary documentation for advanced topics in programming with NSS.</dd>
</dl>
<h3 id="Tools_testing_and_other_technical_details">Tools, testing, and other technical details</h3>
<dl>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/NSS_Sources_Building_Testing">Build Instructions for NSS</a></dt>
<dd>
Describe how to check out and build NSS releases.</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_Developer_Tutorial">NSS Developer Tutorial</a></dt>
<dd>
How to make changes in NSS. Coding style, maintaining ABI compatibility.</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a href="NSS/Tools">NSS Tools</a></dt>
<dd>
Tools for developing, debugging, and managing applications that use NSS.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="NSS/NSS_Sample_Code">Sample Code</a></dt>
<dd>
Demonstrates how NSS can be used for cryptographic operations, certificate handling, SSL, etc.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/testnss_32.html">NSS 3.2 Test Suite</a></dt>
<dd>
<b>Archived version.</b> Describes how to run the standard NSS tests.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/performance_reports.html">NSS Performance Reports</a></dt>
<dd>
<b>Archived version.</b> Links to performance reports for NSS 3.2 and later releases.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/nss-3.11/nss-3.11-algorithms.html">Encryption Technologies Available in NSS 3.11</a></dt>
<dd>
<b>Archived version.</b> Lists the cryptographic algorithms used by NSS 3.11.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/loadable_certs.html">NSS 3.1 Loadable Root Certificates</a></dt>
<dd>
<b>Archived version.</b> Describes the scheme for loading root CA certificates.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/db_formats.html">cert7.db</a></dt>
<dd>
<b>Archived version.</b> General format of the cert7.db database.</dd>
</dl>
<h3 id="PKCS_11_information">PKCS #11 information</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/PKCS11" title="PKCS11">Documentation on PKCS #11 modules</a></li>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/PKCS11_Implement">Implementing PKCS #11 for NSS</a></li>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/PKCS11_Module_Specs" title="PKCS11_Module_Specs">The strings NSS uses to load PKCS #11 modules</a></li>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/PKCS11_FAQ">PKCS #11 FAQ</a></li>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/PKCS11_Jar_Install">Using the JAR Installation Manager to Install a PKCS #11 Cryptographic Module</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/pkcs11/">PKCS #11 Conformance Testing - Archived version</a></li>
</ul>
<dl>
</dl>
<h3 id="CA_certificates_pre-loaded_into_NSS">CA certificates pre-loaded into NSS</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy/">Mozilla CA certificate policy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/included/">List of pre-loaded CA certificates</a>
<ul>
<li>Consumers of this list must consider the trust bit setting for each included root certificate. <a href="https://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/01/30/mozillaroots.html">More Information</a>, <a href="https://github.com/agl/extract-nss-root-certs">Extracting roots and their trust bits</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<dl>
</dl>
<h3 id="NSS_is_built_on_top_of_Netscape_Portable_Runtime_(NSPR)">NSS is built on top of Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR)</h3>
<dl>
<dt>
<a href="NSPR">Netscape Portable Runtime</a></dt>
<dd>
NSPR project page.</dd>
<dt>
<a href="/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSPR/Reference">NSPR Reference</a></dt>
<dd>
NSPR API documentation.</dd>
</dl>
<h3 id="Additional_Information">Additional Information</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/JavaScript_crypto" title="JavaScript_crypto">Using the window.crypto object from JavaScript</a></li>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/HTTP_Delegation" title="HTTP_Delegation">Delegation of HTTP download for OCSP</a></li>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/TLS_Cipher_Suite_Discovery" title="TLS_Cipher_Suite_Discovery">TLS Cipher Suite Discovery</a></li>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/NSS_Certificate_Download_Specification" title="NSS_Certificate_Download_Specification">NSS Certificate Download Specification</a></li>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/NSS/FIPS_Mode_-_an_explanation" title="FIPS Mode - an explanation">FIPS Mode - an explanation</a></li>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/NSS_Key_Log_Format" title="NSS Key Log Format">Format of key log files</a></li>
<li>View <a href="/en-US/docs/tag/NSS" title="/en-US/docs/tag/NSS">all NSS-related articles on MDN</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="Testing">Testing</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/Testing_third-party_PKCS#11_modules.2Ftokens_with_NSS" title="Testing_third-party_PKCS#11_modules.2Ftokens_with_NSS">Testing third-party PKCS #11 modules/tokens with NSS</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="Planning">Planning</h3>
<p>Information on NSS planning can be found at <a class="external" href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS">wiki.mozilla.org</a>, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external" href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/FIPS_Validation">FIPS Validation</a></li>
<li><a class="external" href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS:Roadmap">NSS Roadmap page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mitr/NSS:DeveloperFriendliness" title="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mitr/NSS:DeveloperFriendliness">NSS Improvement Project</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<h2 class="Community" id="Community" name="Community">Community</h2>
<ul>
<li>View Mozilla Security forums...</li>
</ul>
<p>{{ DiscussionList("dev-security", "mozilla.dev.security") }}</p>
<ul>
<li>View Mozilla Cryptography forums...</li>
</ul>
<p>{{ DiscussionList("dev-tech-crypto", "mozilla.dev.tech.crypto") }}</p>
<h2 class="Related_Topics" id="Related_Topics" name="Related_Topics">Related Topics</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="/en-US/docs/Security" title="Security">Security</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
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