Network Security Services (NSS)

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:

Getting Started

Building NSS

How to download, build and test NSS.

Release Notes

Information about recent releases of NSS.

Community

This page contains information about the community and how to reach out.

Legacy Docs

This page contains legacy documentation imported from MDN.