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Re: (ITS#7367) [PATCH] MozNSS: update list of supported cipher suites



Rich Megginson wrote:
> On 10/03/2012 10:18 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
>> Thanks for your comments, Rich.

>>> Maybe we could use nss_compat_ossl to do the mapping of cipher names
>>> from openssl to moznss?
>>
>> That makes sense to me, although if as you say it hasn't been actively
>> maintained, that sounds like another problem. But certainly if other
>> apps are using it, then aren't they going to want new cipher suite
>> support too?
>>
> Yes, and imho nss_compat_ossl is the place to do this.
>
> But, would it be possible to update the cipher suite list in tls_m.c
> first, to bring it up to date, then work on updating the compat library?

I discussed this with Kurt; the Project's policy on issues like this in the 
past has been not to commit any backward-compatibility fixes of this sort 
until the real fix has already been released. I.e., we should wait until 
nss_compat_ossl has been updated.

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