NSS Check-in
(Wow, three entries in one day, that’s a new record!)
I’m proud to report that a large chunk of the work I was doing this past summer at Sun Labs has gone public. Specifically, our code contributions have been checked in to the Netscape Security Services part of the open source project Mozilla.
Our new elliptic curve cryptography code offers greatly improved performance and improves the support for protocols based on ECC on the server side. What this all means is that, thanks in part to the work of my colleagues at Sun Labs and the work of various people in the open source community, there is now an end-to-end solution for using elliptic curve cryptography to secure web traffic. You can use a Mozilla client to talk to an Apache server with OpenSSL (or a SunONE server with the new NSS code).
More information: the newsgroup posting announcing the contribution; documentation for part of the contribution; Netscape Security Services project.
Comment by mere
congrats! that is soooo extremely cool. the epitome of coolness, actually. code IN mozilla! ground-breaking code IN mozilla! I can now brag that I know someone who was smart enough to contribute something significant to my favourite browser. and wow, I’ll be cool by association — the talk of the office. “did you know that meredith knows someone who did cryptography in mozilla?! how friggin’ cool is that?” “no kidding man, that is the EPITOME of cool.”
the only trouble is that I just read an entire book in an effort to “fully” understand cryptography, and it didn’t have a single thing about elliptic curve cryptography in it… so I don’t even know how it works yet. next time we see each other you have to promise to explain the basics to me at least 
Comment by mere again
Did you see this?
http://www.cecs.uwaterloo.ca/students/global/j1_us_visa.html
Krystal just sent it to me. Looks like you graduated just in time.
Comment by Douglas
Yes, there’s a story on uwstudent.org about it too. Pretty disappointing, I hope they find a way around it or change it back.
