Articles tagged with “NSS”

Encrypted Client Hello: the future of ESNI in Firefox

Kevin Jacobs

January 7, 2021

Background Two years ago, we announced experimental support for the privacy-protecting Encrypted Server Name Indication (ESNI) extension in Firefox Nightly. The Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS extension enables server and … Read more

Performance Improvements via Formally-Verified Cryptography in Firefox

Kevin Jacobs and Benjamin Beurdouche

July 6, 2020

Cryptographic primitives, while extremely complex and difficult to implement, audit, and validate, are critical for security on the web. To ensure that NSS (Network Security Services, the cryptography library behind … Read more

Improving AES-GCM Performance

Franziskus Kiefer

September 29, 2017

AES-GCM is a NIST standardised authenticated encryption algorithm (FIPS 800-38D). Since its standardisation in 2008 its usage increased to a point where it is the prevalent encryption used with TLS. … Read more