Nss

From Granular Linux Documentation

Contents 1 Their explanation 2 Our explanation 3 Official website 4 Related Packages

Their explanation

NSS is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards.

Our explanation

NSS stands for Network Security Services. It is a dependency of Mozilla Firefox.

Official website

http://mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/

Related Packages

• libnss3
• libnss3-devel