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        PyKCS11 - PKCS#11 Wrapper for Python - Project Overview
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Authors
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- Copyright (C) 2004 Midori (midori -- a-t -- paipai dot net)
- Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Ludovic Rousseau (ludovic.rousseau@free.fr)


Licence
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 This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA


Unix Howto
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$ make build
$ make install (or make install DESTDIR=/foo/bar)


Windows Howto
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Please use the VS.NET 2003 project to build the library.


Known Bugs
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Current version should be compiled using SWIG 1.3.27.
Using 1.3.28+ an error similar to may be generated by the compiler:

src\win32_pykcs11_wrap.cpp error C2440: 'static_cast' : 
                     cannot convert from 'char *' to 'unsigned char *'

The precompiled wrapper included in distribution is being generated
using SWIG 1.3.27.

If in Windows the linker complains that the Python24_d.lib doesn't exists
Please edit the "SWIG-Install-Dir\Lib\python\python.swg" file and replace
following line:
#include "Python.h"

with following code:
#ifdef _DEBUG
  #undef _DEBUG
  #include "Python.h"
  #define _DEBUG
#else
  #include "Python.h"
#endif

This prevents the linker to try to link against the debug version of python lib
that doesn't come with the standard distribution.


History
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1.2.2 - June 2010, Ludovic Rousseau
        Debug low level C_GenerateRandom
        Add seedRandom() and generateRandom() in the high level API

1.2.1 - November 2008, Ludovic Rousseau
        Use src/opensc/pkcs11.h instead of src/rsaref/* files since the
         files from RSA are not free enough (no right to distribute modified
         versions for example)
        improve samples/getinfo.py script
        bug fixes

1.2.0 - August 2008, Ludovic Rousseau
        add getMechanismList() and getMechanismInfo()
        add Session().getSessionInfo()
        bug fixes

1.1.1 - December 2006, Giuseppe Amato (Midori)
        bug fixes

1.1.0 - August 2006, Ludovic Rousseau
        Introduce high level API

1.0.2 - July 2006, Ludovic Rousseau
        port to Unix (tested on GNU/Linux only)
        explicit call to SWIG to generate the wrapper

1.0.1 - 2004 Giuseppe Amato (Midori)
        first version
        Windows only