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 PSM performs the business logic of deciding whether a given secure network connection is actually trustworthy. It applies logic from the user's choices, the Mozilla Root Program, and the platform in order to make a trust determination. E.g., whether to show a connection as secure.
-* 2016 Q4 / 2017 Q1: Re-architect PSM/NSS interaction to eliminate shutdown crashes.
+* 2018 Q1: Move error-string formatting for our error pages into the front-end JavaScript
-** The interaction between PSM and NSS is extremely old, and doesn't follow the modern methods Gecko uses to initialize and shutdown modules. As such, NSS sometimes crashes when shutting down; this is a leading crash on Android. Fixing this is a substantial architectural change.
+* 2018 Q2: Retool the "See more" sections of error pages using JavaScript to provide more help
-** Details here: [[Security/CryptoEngineering/Platform Use of NSS|Platform Use of NSS]]
+* 2018 Q3: Continue work on our Certificate Transparency implementation and test infrastructure
-* 2017 Q2: Speed up TLS handshakes
-* 2017 Q2: Continue work on our Certificate Transparency implementation and test infrastructure
-* 2017 Q3: Move error-string formatting for our error pages into the front-end JavaScript
-* 2017 Q3: Retool the "See more" sections of error pages using JavaScript to provide more help
 == Web Authentication ==