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diff --git a/security/pakchois/DESCR b/security/pakchois/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..50a32edc0c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/security/pakchois/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +pakchois is just another PKCS#11 wrapper library. pakchois aims to +provide a thin wrapper over the PKCS#11 interface. + +The goals are: + +1) to offer a modern* object-oriented C interface wrapper for PKCS#11. + +2) to not hide or abstract away any details of the PKCS#11 interface +itself except where absolutely necessary. + +3) to handle the details of loading DSOs + +4) to allow the caller to avoid caring about where on the system +PKCS#11 modules might be stored, or exactly how they are named. + +5) to avoid any dependency on a particular cryptography toolkit. + +Existing PKCS#11 wrapper libraries solutions differ in at least one of +the above goals. + +*: "modern" being a euphemism for not using process-global state, +having a sane symbol namespace, etc. |