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[ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.13 Release

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Wan-Teh Chang

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Oct 14, 2011, 2:51:30 PM10/14/11
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NSS 3.13 has been released. The CVS tag is NSS_3_13_RTM.
The source tar file can be downloaded from
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_13_RTM/.

You can find the new features and bug fixes in NSS 3.13 with this
Bugzilla query:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=1496878&resolution=FIXED&classification=Components&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=3.13&product=NSS

Some notable changes include:

1. SSL 2.0 is disabled by default.

2. A defense against the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 CBC chosen plaintext attack
demonstrated by Rizzo and Duong (CVE-2011-3389) is enabled by default.
Set the SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV SSL option to PR_FALSE to disable it.

3. SHA-224 is supported.

4. Ported to iOS. (Requires NSPR 4.9.)

5. Added PORT_ErrorToString and PORT_ErrorToName to return the
error message and symbolic name of an NSS error code.

6. Added NSS_GetVersion to return the NSS version string.

7. Added experimental support of RSA-PSS to the softoken only
(by Hanno Böck, http://rsapss.hboeck.de/).

Wan-Teh Chang

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