NSS

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Analyzed about 23 hours ago. based on code collected 1 day ago.

Project Summary

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 v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards.

In a Nutshell, NSS...

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has had 11,885 commits made by 321 contributors
representing 843,581 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 236 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in March, 1998
ending with its most recent commit 2 days ago

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