Re: [tor-talk] TIMB - Tor Instant Messaging Bundle

[Andrew F <andrewfriedman101@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, M. Ziebell <s66812@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> If have a question to the TIMB Project,
> I'm not sure if this is the correct mailing list, if not I'm sorry.
>
> In this Roadmap/summary:
>
>
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2014WinterDevMeeting/notes/RoadmapTIMB
>
> You mention that your planing/trying the Bundle around the Mozillas NSS
> lib with some JS-C Wrapper for OTR.
>
> Possible that I mistake something but I'm not a friend of the idea of
> an messenger basend on JS and NSS.
>
> 1. As far as I understand it would just use web techniques and NOT be
>    one, so this article may not apply.
>
> http://rdist.root.org/2010/11/29/final-post-on-javascript-crypto/
>
> 2. The Tor Browser Bundle already depends on NSS. IMHO it is true to
>    say that there security bugs in the lib, just because security is so
>    damn complex.
>    Considering these two statement I would advise against NSS and build
>    the Bundle around an other LIB, for diversity.
>
>
> I'm sorry for the clumsy language or if I offend anybody/anyone. Highly
> likely that I'm not getting everythin..
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> M
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