Bug 1676 - Add NSS keys support
Summary: Add NSS keys support
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Smartcard (show other bugs)
Version: 5.3p1
Hardware: Other Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Assigned to nobody
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Reported: 2009-11-28 00:54 AEDT by jchadima
Modified: 2015-08-11 23:04 AEST (History)
2 users (show)

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patch adding the functionality (40.75 KB, patch)
2009-11-28 00:55 AEDT, jchadima 		no flags Details | Diff
new version of the patch (40.75 KB, patch)
2010-02-16 00:16 AEDT, jchadima 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description jchadima 2009-11-28 00:54:12 AEDT 
The netscape security suite is an implementation of the crypto card framework. This patch introduces the possibility to use it with openssh.
Comment 1 jchadima 2009-11-28 00:55:31 AEDT 
Created attachment 1734 [details]
patch adding the functionality
Comment 2 Damien Miller 2009-11-28 09:20:45 AEDT 
NSS seems like a nicer API than using PKCS#11 directly, but it is still incompatibly licensed. I'd rather see alternate key providers implemented as standalone agents than patches to OpenSSH, but we might need to do some plumbing to make this usable (e.g. multiple agent support).
Comment 3 Tomas Mraz 2009-11-30 18:41:06 AEDT 
Why is it incompatibly licensed? The NSS is tri-licensed - MPL, LGPL, and GPL licensed. Both LGPL and MPL should not be incompatible with licenses that apply to OpenSSH code. Of course I'd expect that the NSS support in OpenSSH would always be compiled in only optionally.
Comment 4 jchadima 2010-02-16 00:16:25 AEDT 
Created attachment 1793 [details]
new version of the patch

This patch add library libplc4 to ld to avoid implicit dso linking
Comment 5 Damien Miller 2015-05-01 18:15:34 AEST 
OpenSSH has had PKCS#11 support for some years now, we don't need another way to get at keys on smartcards.
Comment 6 Damien Miller 2015-08-11 23:04:19 AEST 
Set all RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED with release of OpenSSH 7.1