============================ PerlCryptLib v.1.00 - README ============================ What is cryptlib? ----------------- PerlCryptLib is an interface module to access cryptlib API. cryptlib (Copyright 1992-2005 Peter Gutmann. All rights reserved.) is a powerful encryption and security software toolkit that allows even inexperienced crypto-programmers to easily add world-leading encryption and authentication services to their software. For more information about cryptlib features and state-of-the-art, please visit its official web-site at: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib What is PerlCryptLib? --------------------- PerlCryptLib is a wrapping extension that allow Perl users to use the Open-Source/multi-platform crypto library cryptlib directly from Perl. The goal of the module is to give programmers the easyest way to get cryptlib functionality; this is done maintaining the exact syntax explained in the cryptlib manual. Pre-installation notes ---------------------- * Versions and platforms supported: - cryptlib v.3.2.2 (both shared and static build) on linux * In order to "make" PerlCryptLib correctly you need to modify the pre-processed line in PerlCryptLib.xs: #include "../cryptlib322/cryptlib.h" to point to your cryptlib source-directory Installation ------------ Simply do: $ tar -xvzf PerlCryptLib-x.xx.tar.gz $ cd PerlCryptLib-x.xx $ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ make test $ su ~ $ make install Note: to get test-verbosity try 'make test TEST_VERBOSE=1' instead 'make test'. Post-installation ----------------- See MAN documentation for detailed information about PerlCryptLib: $ man PerlCryptlib