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# Network Security Services (NSS)

```{eval-rst}
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :glob:
   :hidden:

   build.md
   community.md
   try.md
   runbooks/index.md
   legacy_extracts/index.md
   releases/index.md
```

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**Network Security Services** (**NSS**) is a set of libraries designed to
support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server
applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v3, TLS, PKCS #5,
PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other
security standards.

NSS is available under the Mozilla Public License v2 (MPLv2).

If you're a developer and would like to contribute to NSS, you might want to
read the documents:

```{rubric} Getting Started
:name: Getting_Started
```

{ref}`mozilla_projects_nss_building`

: How to download, build and test NSS.

{ref}`mozilla_projects_nss_releases`

: Information about recent releases of NSS.

{ref}`mozilla_projects_nss_community`

: This page contains information about the community and how to reach out.

{ref}`mozilla_projects_nss_legacy_docs`

: This page contains legacy documentation imported from MDN.
:::