On 2012-12-13 17:10, Kai Engert wrote: > Brendan Eich suggested posting to this list, too > (already posted yesterday to Mozilla's dev-planning list). > > > Hello Mozilla, I'd like to announce a change. > > PSM is the name of Mozilla's glue code for PKI related [1] security > features, such as certificate management, web based certificate > enrollment, tracking the security state of web pages (padlock/EV), > application preferences for certificate validation, > SSL error reporting, handling of certificate exceptions, > user interface for SSL client authentication, etc. > > After having contributed to this module for over 11 years, > it's time for me to step down from the PSM module ownership role. > > The new module owner of PSM will be Brian Smith. > > I've switched my main focus to the NSS security libraries [2], > and to PKI features across Linux applications in general.
So will Linux eventually get a crypto system that runs as a protected/OS-level process like Android's "KeyChain" or is this functionality supposed to be supplied through GKR? > > PSM operates on top of NSS, thereby I'll continue to indirectly > contribute to Mozilla's projects. > > I'd like to thank the people who have contributed to the PSM module > over time, and I'd like to thank my employer Red Hat, Inc., which has > allowed me to make PSM a priority during the previous 7 years and > continues to support my work on NSS. > > Regards > Kai > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_infrastructure > [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS > > -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
