[xmlsec] Re: DSA and RSA support in crypto NSS

Tejkumar Arora tej@netscape.com
Tue, 27 May 2003 23:26:53 -0700


Aleksey Sanin wrote:

 >
 >
 > > I can not find the DSA and RSA routines in the subset of NSS crypto
 > > enginer. At present, the xmlsec cann't support DSA or RSA directly by
 > > crypto NSS, right?
 >
 > Right. xmlsec-nss currently supports only DES,AES, SHA1 and HMAC (see
 > interop pages
 > on the web site).
 >
 > > And I can not build the examples because of the shortage of RSA and
 > > DSA routines.
 >
 > Correct.
 >
 > > When will you make them all ready?
 >
 > AFAIK, Tej is working on adding more feature to NSS port and you
 > probably should ask him.
 > And if you need it sooner do not forget that I accept contributions :)

Yes, I'm working on adding NSS support.
I've opened a mozilla bug for some functionality I need
in NSS (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207033).

This week & next I'm busy with a few personal things.... so
it is not likely to happen by next week. How urgently
do you need this?.

-Tej

 >
 >
 > Aleksey
 >