NSS-Crypto.org

Network Security Services

• Open source software library, C programming language.
• Security protocols (e.g. SSL/TLS, CMS), cryptographic algorithms, certificate and key storage, trust management, PKCS#11.
• Portable across many platforms, because NSS uses NSPR.
• License: MPL 2 (see license FAQ).

• MDN NSS docs hosted at mozilla.org
• New site for docs that live inside the NSS source tree.
• Getting Started with NSS (has links to sample code)
• Old NSS legacy docs that have been unmaintained for a long time,
  and which may contain obsolete or incorrect information.
  It might be interesting nevertheless, some information might be unavailable elsewhere.
• An Overview of NSS Internals
• NSS in Wikipedia
• Information about NSS releases and Release Notes.
  (Or look for announcements in the mailing list.)
• NSS and Mozilla crypto discussion mailing list
• Download NSS releases
• Matrix real time chat: #nss:mozilla.org
• Getting source code, building and testing, and a quick overview of source code organization.
• Browse NSS source code.
• Automated builds and testing.

Interested to help us? Look at the list of open bugs/tickets waiting for help.

Who are we? Have a look at the group pictures we took at the NSS team meeting in 2016, and the meeting in 2010.

• Mozilla Firefox
  
• Mozilla Thunderbird
  
• Mozilla SeaMonkey
  
• Gnome Evolution
  
• Gnome Network Manager
  
• Apache Qpid
  
• mod_nss (NSS based SSL provider for Apache)
  
• 389 Directory Server
  
• Dogtag Certificate System
  
• JSS (Java bindings for NSS)
  
• python-nss
  
• The Chromium Projects
  
• Netscape Navigator