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brew install nss v3.125 MPL-2.0

Cryptographic library for TLS, certificate validation, and digital signatures used by Firefox and other applications.

Why you might care

NSS is a mature, standards-compliant cryptography library maintained by Mozilla that handles SSL/TLS, X.509 certificates, and crypto operations. It's a build dependency for Firefox and other security-sensitive applications; use it if you're compiling software that needs robust PKIX or certificate chain validation without external OpenSSL entanglement.

Categories

library crypto security

Alternatives

OpenSSL GnuTLS LibreSSL
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Runtime dependencies

nspr

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