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Mozilla to Include Crypto
Willy Wonka passed us the news that Mozilla's
M14 release will include crypotography on the branch.
If you'd care to add your eyeballs to the debugging process, please do: Christine Begle posts in the n.p.m.seamonkey newsgroup, "We need help from the Mozilla community to test the crypto-enabled M14 candidate builds. Some tests and test plans will be posted to mozilla.org sometime on Tuesday."
That's today, folks.
Hi. I'm one of the developers who is working on getting the crypto stuff out of our internal tree and into the M14 branch.
It is true that for the moment, this branch will only be useful with a binary-only module that we are cranking out for both 4.x and Netscape 6 browsers.
However, as you will see here, we are in the process of getting all the source code that we legally can out there. We made tarballs available a few weeks ago, and though that code doesn't build, at least you can get an idea of how the binary piece works.
We're still working on patent issues, as you might guess, along with a number of other things, before we can have a fully working build in the mozilla tree. But we're getting there.
Mark Welch -- Crypto/PKI developer -- Sun|Netscape Alliance
I (the person who built the M13 binaries for Linux/PowerPC) am working on this. While I can't have the source either, I think I have a netscape employee who is going too be helping on PowerPC at least. Other people on other platforms, go to irc.mozilla.org #mozcrypto and I expect you will find helpful people who want this to work just as much as you do.
Chant with me... September 30th... (RSA's patent will expire and SSL won't be such a legal PITA). Right now it has to be binary-only or not at all, due to legal restrictions.
The Matrix is going down for reboot now! Stopping reality: OK. The system is halted.
Ugh. This isn't a flame; unlike some others, I'm not going to go ape just because I can't get the source to a couple of the components of one of the apps I run.
But whenever I hear 'binary-only,' it turns out to mean Linux-x86 only. As someone who runs Linux (yes, real Linux, new kernels and all) on a PowerPC, this won't be the first almost-must-have goodie denied to me -- and I'm sure folks who run on other open source OSes, even on the x86, can relate.
John
Curses! http://www.mozillazine.org is blocked by SurfWatch! Just when I was about to get a stable browser that works, the filtering companies decide open source software is against their morals :-(