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Network Security Services (NSS)
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   build.rst
   community.rst
   runbooks/index.rst
   legacy_extracts/index.rst
   releases/index.rst

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   **Network Security Services** (**NSS**) is a set of libraries designed to
   support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server
   applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v3, TLS, PKCS #5,
   PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other
   security standards.

   NSS is available under the Mozilla Public License v2 (MPLv2).

   If you're a developer and would like to contribute to NSS, you might want to
   read the documents:

   .. rubric:: Getting Started
      :name: Getting_Started

   :ref:`mozilla_projects_nss_building`
      How to download, build and test NSS.

   :ref:`mozilla_projects_nss_releases`
      Information about recent releases of NSS.

   :ref:`mozilla_projects_nss_community`
      This page contains information about the community and how to reach out.

   :ref:`mozilla_projects_nss_legacy_docs`
      This page contains legacy documentation imported from MDN.