[lsb-discuss] [Fwd: NSS public functions.]

[Ron Hale-Evans]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Robert Relyea <rrelyea at redhat.com> wrote:
> Ron Hale-Evans wrote:
>>
>> On 6/9/08, *Jeff Licquia* <jeff at licquia.org <mailto:jeff at licquia.org>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>    <snip>
>>    I would initially propose the strawman list of APIs be included in
>>    LSB4 would include.
>>
>>    This are all the functions which we documented in our ssl
>>    reference except the following:
>>
>>    NSS_SetDomesticPolicy
>>
>>  <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#1228530>
>>    NSS_SetExportPolicy
>>
>>  <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#1100285>
>>    SSL_Enable
>>
>>  <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#1220189>
>>    SSL_EnableCipher
>>
>>  <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#1207298>
>>    SSL_EnableDefault
>>
>>  <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#%231206365>
>>    SSL_RedoHandshake
>>
>>  <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#1231825>
>>    SSL_SetPolicy
>>
>>  <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#1207350>
>>
>>    The above are deprecated, and no longer needed (either their
>>    functionality was replaced by a newer function, or their
>>    functionality is no longer needed).
>>
>>    NSS_Init
>>
>>  <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#1067601>
>>
>>    NSS_InitReadWrite
>>
>>  <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#1237143>
>>
>>    NSS_NoDBInit
>>
>>  <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#1234224>
>>
>>    NSS_Shutdown
>>
>>  <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#1061858>
>>
>>
>>
>> <snip; more APIs followed>
>>
>> Jeff, I'm having trouble parsing the text above. I suspect a copy/paste
>> error between the first and second paragraphs, if not some other error
>> between my ears. :-)
>
> Sorry I wasn't clear...
>
> The explicit list starts at NSS_Init.
>
> The links above that point to explicit documentation I used to create the
> lists. That documentation includes some deprecated functions, so I pointed
> those out. They probably should not be part of the API.
>
> I was hoping to get some comments from the rest of the NSS team on whether
> or not this list is appropriate, particularly whether or not the deprecated
> list of functions are correct.

Thanks, Bob. That's a huge help. I'll pore over this shortly.

Ron

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