Security Projects
Mozilla includes several projects related to security:
- Open Source PKI Projects. Main home page for all
open source public-key infrastructure (PKI) projects, including:
- Network Security Services (NSS). Project
for supporting cross-platform development of security-enabled server applications.
Applications built with NSS can support PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12,
S/MIME, TLS, SSL v2 and v3, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards.
- Network Security Services for Java (JSS). A Java interface to
NSS that supports most of the security standards and encryption technologies
supported by NSS. JSS also provides a pure Java interface for ASN.1 types and BER/DER encoding.
- Personal Security Manager (PSM). Project
for supporting cross-platform development of security-enabled client applications.
PSM includes libraries (built on top of NSS) and a daemon that performs
cryptographic operations on behalf of a client application--operations such as
setting up an SSL connection, object signing and signature verification, certificate
management, and other common PKI functions.
- PKCS #11 Conformance Testing. Test suites designed to
test PKCS #11 implementations.
- Component Security For Mozilla. Project
for adding Java and JavaScript security to Mozilla components, mainly in terms of mobile code
and the browser interfaces available to programs from those languages.
- Policy for Handling Security Bugs. Guidelines
on how to report security vulnerabilities and how the Mozilla community will deal with them.
- Top Level Domains for which we permit Internationalized Domain Names, with links to the relevant registry policies.