On Friday 31. January 2014 02:24:35 Julien Pierre wrote:
> On 1/27/2014 10:28, Kathleen Wilson wrote:
> > Draft Design Doc posted by Ryan Sleevi regarding Chrome migrating from
> > NSS to OpenSSL:
> > 
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ML11ZyyMpnAr6clIAwWrXD53pQgNR-DppMYwt9
> > XvE6s/edit?pli=1
> > 
> > "Switching to OpenSSL, however, has the opportunity to bring
> > significant performance and stability advantages to iOS, Mac, Windows,
> > and ChromeOS immediately out of the gate. Switching Linux to use
> > OpenSSL will take longer, due to the desire to continue to support
> > PKCS#11-based smart card authentication, which will require more work.
> > The biggest risk/cost to such a switch is no longer being able to help
> > Firefox benefit from these efforts, nor benefiting from Firefox’s
> > efforts in these areas."
> > 
> > Kathleen
> 
> Strange that "PKCS#11 support" is listed as a "con" for NSS .

That probably got switched to the wrong column.

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