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List:       mozilla-crypto
Subject:    [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.8 Release
From:       user () domain ! invalid ! netscape ! com
Date:       2003-04-10 17:31:03
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The NSS 3.8 release is now available at
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_8_RTM/.
The cvs tag is NSS_3_8_RTM.  NSS 3.8
requires NSPR 4.3, available at
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/nspr/releases/v4.3/.

The new features in NSS 3.8 are listed below.
Please refer to the NSS 3.8 project plan at
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/nss-3.8/nss-3.8-plan.html
for more details. I will post the NSS 3.8
release notes on this mailing list soon.

New features:
1. Integrated the elliptic curve cryptography
(ECC) code contributed by Sun Labs.
2. Implemented FIPS 180-2 SHA-256, SHA-384,
and SHA-512.
3. Implemented software integrity check of the
softoken.
4. Made CRL updates in the softoken atomic.
5. Poll for smartcard/hardware token removal
during an SSL client auth connection.
6. Documented the ASN.1 templates and the
classic and QuickDER decoders.

Wan-Teh Chang


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