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Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?



On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 12:55 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> It seems fedora is moving to nss for openldap

I don't think it's completely free from the same kind of issues as
GNUTLS. For example, I recently came across this:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701587
NSS (Network Security Service, not Name Service Switch) seems to change
the scheduling parameters of a process.

Also OpenLDAP itself isn't that good a candidate to load into every
process. Just look at all the hacks nss_ldap needs to do keep it in a
sane state. Also environment variables and files in user's home
directory influence libldap's workings.

Although switching SSL/TLS library to something different may be a good
idea, I don't think it will fix the problem for NSS (Name Service Switch
here) modules.

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