Bug 346711

Summary:	Port coreutils to use NSS library for cryptography
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	kdudka, poelstra, tmraz, twaugh
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Description Peter Vrabec 2007-10-23 10:17:12 UTC

coreutils should be ported to use NSS library for cryptography.
See the tracking bug for details and links on how it could be done.

Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2008-08-27 11:48:28 UTC

This is (maybe incomplete) list of affected coreutils utilities:
  base64 - encoding/decoding
  md5sum, sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum, sha512sum - hash algorithms

Upstream has rejected porting this utilities to NSS at this time, because replacement of working hash algorithms are not very useful from upstream perspective.

I am also not sure if coreutils fundamental utilities (like md5sum) should be dependent on NSS library.

Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2010-03-16 12:36:26 UTC

Based on comment #1 closing WONTFIX.