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= RSASSA-PSS-Implementation in nss (Google Summer of Code 2010) =

RSASSA-PSS is a padding scheme for RSA signatures with provable security. Implementation of RSASSA-PSS according to [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3447 PKCS #1 2.1 / RFC 3447] and [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4055 RFC 4055] should be realized within a [http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/mozilla/t127230761333 Google Summer of Code 2010 project] by student [http://www.hboeck.de/ Hanno Böck] (project mentor is Wan-Teh Chang).

== Status ==

* Patch submitted to add the OIDs from RFC 4055 (2010-05-18)
* Mask Generation Function (MGF1) code (2010-06-16)
* First verification patch (2010-07-04)
* First signature patch (2010-07-31)
* Softtoken part applied (2010-08-04)

== Links ==

* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158750 Bugzilla-entry for RSASSA-PSS]
* [http://www.hboeck.de/plugin/tag/gsoc Entries related to the project in Hanno's Blog]


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