Network Security Services
| Developer(s) | Mozilla, AOL, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, Google and others |
|---|---|
| Stable release |
3.30.2 (April 21, 2017) |
| Repository | hg |
| Written in | C, assembly |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Type | libraries |
| License | MPL 2.0 |
| Website | developer |
3.30.2 (April 21, 2017)
3.29.5 (April 20, 2017)
3.28.5 (April 21, 2017)
In computing, Network Security Services (NSS) comprises a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications with optional support for hardware TLS/SSL acceleration on the server side and hardware smart cards on the client side. NSS provides a complete open-source implementation of cryptographic libraries supporting Transport Layer Security (TLS) / Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and S/MIME. Previously tri-licensed under the Mozilla Public License 1.1, the GNU General Public License, and the GNU Lesser General Public License, NSS upgraded to GPL-compatible MPL 2.0 with release 3.14.
NSS originated from the libraries developed when Netscape invented the SSL security protocol.
The NSS software crypto module has been validated five times (1997, 1999, 2002, 2007, and 2010) for conformance to FIPS 140 at Security Levels 1 and 2. NSS was the first open source cryptographic library to receive FIPS 140 validation. The NSS libraries passed the NISCC TLS/SSL and S/MIME test suites (1.6 million test cases of invalid input data).
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