Network Security Services

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Network Security Services

Developer(s)	Mozilla, AOL, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, Google and others
Stable release	3.104[1]  / 1 August 2024
Repository	hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss
Written in	C, assembly
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Cross-platform
Type	Libraries
License	MPL 2.0
Website	developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS

Network Security Services (NSS) is a collection of cryptographic computer libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications with optional support for hardware TLS/SSL acceleration on the server side and hardware smart cards on the client side. NSS provides a complete open-source implementation of cryptographic libraries supporting Transport Layer Security (TLS) / Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and S/MIME. NSS releases prior to version 3.14 are tri-licensed under the Mozilla Public License 1.1, the GNU General Public License, and the GNU Lesser General Public License. Since release 3.14, NSS releases are licensed under GPL-compatible Mozilla Public License 2.0.^[2]