Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. It implements cryptographic functions in the Firefox and Chrome browsers, and after a recently found certificate signature verification vulnerability, I decided to take a look at this project too.
more here...........http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0286/
more here...........http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0286/