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Revision as of 23:25, 1 August 2012

NSS Face to Face Meeting

Date: August 7 and 8, 2012 (Tuesday and Wednesday)

Location: 650 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041

Conference Room: Northbridge, 4th Floor, 1-650-903-0800 extension 5480

Teleconference:

  • 1-650-903-0800, extension 92, conference number 99161#
  • 1-800-707-2533, password 369, conference number 99161#

Vidyo: Kathleen Wilson (9161)

IRC server: irc.mozilla.org, room: #nss

Attendees: Everyone local should try to attend the appropriate meetings in person. Everyone else may attend the appropriate meetings via Vidyo or phone.

High Level Schedule

Day Topics
Tuesday Context Setting, Roadmaps, NSS Priorities, CAB Forum, Process, Telemetry
Wednesday Infrastructure, Design/Technical Discussions
Thursday Wrap-up (if needed), Design/Technical Discussions (optional)

Detailed Agenda

Tuesday, August 7

Day/Time Meeting Topic Attendees
9:30-10:00 Context Setting
  • Commitment to NSS/PSM
  • Optimizing our work dynamics
Kai Engert, Bob Relyea, Wan-Teh Chang, Ryan Sleevi, Johnathan Nightingale, Brian Smith, Kathleen Wilson, Gerv Markham, Lukas Blakk
10:00-10:45 Mozilla Roadmaps: Firefox, Security, and Privacy Kai Engert, Bob Relyea, Wan-Teh Chang, Ryan Sleevi, Johnathan Nightingale, Asa Dotzler, Sid Stamm, Lucas Adamski, Brian Smith, Kathleen Wilson, Gerv Markham, Dan Veditz, Josh Aas, Eric Rescorla, Ian Melven, Camilo Viecco
10:45-11:30 Wan-Teh Chang, Ryan Sleevi, Kai Engert, Bob Relyea, Elio Maldonado, Johnathan Nightingale, Brian Smith, Kathleen Wilson, Gerv Markham, Dan Veditz, Sid Stamm, Lucas Adamski, Josh Aas, Eric Rescorla, Ian Melven, Camilo Viecco
11:30-12:15 Lunch
12:15-1:15 Items particularly related to our CAB Forum participation
  • We need to firm up our "improving revocation" strategy, views and planned changes. Should we be pushing CAs to improve the CRL and OCSP infrastructure? If so, are we going to take advantage of it? What about all of these alternative mechanisms for revocation?
  • There are some long-standing bugs that the CAB Forum has been asking us to fix for years. How are we doing?
  • The security UI in Firefox has recently changed significantly. For example, we no longer display a mixed content warning! What do we think of these changes, and do we want to lobby for reversals/fixes?
Wan-Teh Chang, Ryan Sleevi, Kai Engert, Bob Relyea, Elio Maldonado, Johnathan Nightingale, Brian Smith, Kathleen Wilson, Gerv Markham, Dan Veditz, Sid Stamm, Lucas Adamski, Eric Rescorla, Ian Melven, Camilo Viecco
1:15-2:30 Process Wan-Teh Chang, Ryan Sleevi, Kai Engert, Bob Relyea, Elio Maldonado, Johnathan Nightingale, Brian Smith, Kathleen Wilson, Gerv Markham, Sid Stamm, Tanvi Vyas, Alex Keybl (sadly off on PTO), Andreas Gal, Ian Melven, Lukas Blakk, Camilo Viecco
2:30-3:00 Telemetry for NSS/PSM Kai Engert, Bob Relyea, Sid Stamm, David Chan, Dan Veditz, Brian Smith, Kathleen Wilson, Ian Melven
TBD Dinner - Scratch in Mtn. View Please add your name here if you plan to attend: Kathleen, Johnathan, Gerv, Wan-Teh,

Wednesday, August 8

Day/Time Meeting Topic Attendees
9:30-10:00 Follow-up from Monday's meetings. (Was "Infrastructure: Buildbot System Demonstration", but the buildbot is not ready) Kai Engert, Ryan Sleevi, Bob Relyea, Elio Maldonado, Brian Smith, Josh Aas, Kathleen Wilson, Dustin Mitchell, Justin Wood, Chris Cooper, John O'Duinn
10:00-10:30 Infrastructure: Version Control Wan-Teh Chang, Ryan Sleevi, Kai Engert, Bob Relyea, Elio Maldonado, Johnathan Nightingale, Brian Smith, Josh Aas, Kathleen Wilson, Dustin Mitchell, John O'Duinn, Corey Shields, Melissa O'Connor
10:30-11:30 Infrastructure: Tests and Automation
  • Making NSS automatic tests compatible with Mozilla RelEng systems
  • Current need for separate NSS test systems
  • Infrastructure that the NSS team currently depends on (Tinderbox, Bonsai, writeable CVS server)
  • Current test system coverage vs full coverage of platforms Mozilla supports
  • Plan for moving forward
Kai Engert, Bob Relyea, Elio Maldonado, Wan-Teh Chang, Ryan Sleevi, Brian Smith, Josh Aas, Kathleen Wilson, Dustin Mitchell, Justin Wood, Chris Cooper, John O'Duinn, Corey Shields, Melissa O'Connor
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:00 FIPS Certification Wan-Teh Chang, Ryan Sleevi, Kai Engert, Bob Relyea, Elio Maldonado, Johnathan Nightingale, Brian Smith, Kathleen Wilson, Gerv Markham, Sid Stamm
1:00-1:30 Operating System Requirements and Operating System Integration; e.g.
  • smartcard support
  • client certificate management
  • certificate management in general
  • FIPS certificate crypto module that the user is automatically logged into
  • integration with operating-system cert stores on non-NSS-based platforms
Kai Engert, Bob Relyea, Wan-Teh Chang, Ryan Sleevi, Elio Maldonado, Johnathan Nightingale, Brian Smith, Kathleen Wilson, Gerv Markham, Sid Stamm
1:30-4:30 Design/Technical Discussions (topics to be decided by NSS Team) NSS Team and additional Mozilla folks as needed.

Thursday, August 9

Day/Time Meeting Topic Attendees
TBD Wrap-up (if needed) -- complete any discussions that were left open. NSS Team and additional Mozilla folks as needed.
TBD Design/Technical Discussions (optional) NSS Team and additional Mozilla folks as needed.

Potential Design/Technical Discussion Topics

Here's a list of possible items to have design and/or technical discussions about.

  • OCSP Stapling
  • CA Pinning
  • TLS 1.1
  • TLS 1.2
  • Libpkix enablement for all certs
  • OCSP Get
  • libssl4
  • J-PAKE
  • CA:OCSP-HardFail
  • Cert Blocklist via Update Ping
  • HSTS

Background: Notes from Kai/Dustin Meeting in June

  • NSS is a general purpose C crypto/certificate management library used by a number of applications as well as Mozilla (cert8.db and key3.db holds user stored passwords). Chrome on Linux uses NSS as well, but use the local crypto toolkit on windows and OS X
  • NSPR is an API wrapper around the code that interfaces with multiple security devices (PKCS11) - smart cards, hardware tokens, etc

Releases are done with NSPR/NSS at the same time (keep them in sync). They just ask people not to make any changes, then make a tar ball. No binary releases since it's just a library.

Historically, the people who've worked on NSS have been a bit separate from the rest of the project. Members work at RedHat and Google (for example). During the last year, a few more people have volunteered.

There aren't a lot of updates and the NSS team only does code merges every once in a while. They use CVS for VCS since there's little development compared to the rest of the mozilla project, and they don't want to maintain multiple additional branches or learn a new VCS (not enough people resources).

Currently working on TLS 1.1 and hopefully TLS 1.2 in the future. So there are two branches right now (stable and dev).

IT resources:

  • Until recently, it has been a long struggle to get resources since Mozilla has moved on to new processes (tinderbox/bonsai, buildbot, VCS, etc). NSS has requirements that are not being met.
  • In the past, Sun was providing people to work on QA/testing, but that went away when Oracle bought Sun. Then Redhat took over. Redhat had to figure out how to run the tests (only old versions of the tests were checked in).
  • Redhat only has Linux, not Windows or Macs, so they didn't have the ability to test on those architectures.
  • About a year and a half ago, Mozilla offered to help as long as the NSS/NSPR team conformed to the rest of releng systems (all or nothing). The NSS group didn't have the resources to make their things compatible and were spending all of their resources trying to pick up the pieces from the Oracle purchase and subsequent ousting from Sun's hardware/QA group.
  • NSS/NSPR needed immediate coverage to get testing on other platforms working, but that took a year (when Dustin stepped in, Mozilla provided community VMs)
  • Kai wrote wiki pages on how to set up the VMs to run tests after getting access to these VMs, so that situation is better now.
  • Kai is working on a list of steps to get from where the team is now to something closer to what Mozilla would like to support (no more CVS, for example), but they need to plan this out, compromise to find what works best for NSS/NSPR team and Mozilla both, and they need help making the transition (again, lack of people resources on their part).
  • Dustin had some suggestions on what might work, but these things still need to be hashed out and defined.