NSS-POLICY-CHECK(1) NSS Security Tools NSS-POLICY-CHECK(1)
NAME
nss-policy-check - nss-policy-check policy-file
SYNOPSIS
nss-policy-check
DESCRIPTION
nss-policy-check verifies crypto-policy configuration that controls
certain crypto algorithms are allowed/disallowed to use in the NSS
library.
The crypto-policy configuration can be stored in either a system-wide
configuration file, specified with the POLICY_PATH and POLICY_FILE
build options, or in the pkcs11.txt in NSS database.
USAGE AND EXAMPLES
To check the global crypto-policy configuration in
/etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/nss.config:
$ nss-policy-check /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/nss.config
NSS-POLICY-INFO: LOADED-SUCCESSFULLY
NSS-POLICY-INFO: PRIME256V1 is enabled for KX
NSS-POLICY-INFO: PRIME256V1 is enabled for CERT-SIGNATURE
NSS-POLICY-INFO: SECP256R1 is enabled for KX
NSS-POLICY-INFO: SECP256R1 is enabled for CERT-SIGNATURE
NSS-POLICY-INFO: SECP384R1 is enabled for KX
NSS-POLICY-INFO: SECP384R1 is enabled for CERT-SIGNATURE
...
NSS-POLICY-INFO: NUMBER-OF-SSL-ALG-KX: 13
NSS-POLICY-INFO: NUMBER-OF-SSL-ALG: 9
NSS-POLICY-INFO: NUMBER-OF-CERT-SIG: 9
...
NSS-POLICY-INFO: ciphersuite TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 is enabled
NSS-POLICY-INFO: ciphersuite TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 is enabled
NSS-POLICY-INFO: ciphersuite TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 is enabled
...
NSS-POLICY-INFO: NUMBER-OF-CIPHERSUITES: 24
NSS-POLICY-INFO: NUMBER-OF-TLS-VERSIONS: 3
NSS-POLICY-INFO: NUMBER-OF-DTLS-VERSIONS: 2
If there is a failure or warning, it will be prefixed with
NSS-POLICY-FAIL or NSS-POLICY_WARN.
nss-policy-check exits with 2 if any failure is found, 1 if any warning
is found, or 0 if no errors are found.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
For information about NSS and other tools related to NSS (like JSS),
check out the NSS project wiki at
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/. The NSS site relates
directly to NSS code changes and releases.
Mailing lists: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
IRC: Freenode at #dogtag-pki
AUTHORS
The NSS tools were written and maintained by developers with Netscape,
Red Hat, Sun, Oracle, Mozilla, and Google.
Authors: Elio Maldonado <emaldona AT redhat.com>, Deon Lackey
<dlackey AT redhat.com>.
LICENSE
Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL
was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at
http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
nss-tools 3.90.0 Nov 13 2013 NSS-POLICY-CHECK(1)