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Crypt::Cryptoki - Perl extension for PKCS#11

STATUS

This is project is still in a very early development stage.

IT IS NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION!

"RSA Security Inc. Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS)"

Current stable version: 2.20

I'm looking forward for version 2.40, which should support TLS 1.2.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

        $ git clone https://github.com/mlarue/p5-Crypt-Cryptoki.git
        $ cd p5-Crypt-Cryptoki
        p5-Crypt-Cryptoki$ perl Build.PL
        p5-Crypt-Cryptoki$ ./Build
        p5-Crypt-Cryptoki$ ./Build test
        p5-Crypt-Cryptoki$ ./Build install

Software HSM

You can test your application with SoftHSM from the OpenDNSSEC Project.

Configuration

        $ mkdir ~/.softhsm
        $ echo "0:$HOME/.softhsm/slot0.db" >> ~/.softhsm/softhsm.conf
        $ echo "export SOFTHSM_CONF=~/.softhsm/softhsm.conf" >> ~/.bashrc
        $ source ~/.bashrc

Initialization

        $ softhsm --init-token --slot 0 --pin 1234 --so-pin 1234 --label testslot

DOCUMENTATION

See

        $ perldoc Crypt::Cryptoki

PKCS#11 RSA http://www.emc.com/emc-plus/rsa-labs/standards-initiatives/pkcs-11-cryptographic-token-interface-standard.htm

Stable Version 2.20 ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/pkcs-11v2-20.pdf

PKCS#11 oasis https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/pkcs11

Public Review Draft 01, 2.40 http://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-curr/v2.40/pkcs11-curr-v2.40.pdf

GNU General Public Licence (GPL)

Copyright (C) 2014 by Markus Lauer

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.18.2 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.