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+<h1>PKCS #11</h1>
+
+<h2>Introduction</h2>
+
+<p>This is an implementation of the <a href="http://www.cryptsoft.com/pkcs11doc/STANDARD/" title="PKCS #11">PKCS11</a> API for the <a href="https://cryptech.is/" title="Cryptech">Cryptech</a>
+project.  Like most PKCS #11 implementations, this one is incomplete
+and probably always will be: PKCS #11 is very open-ended, and the
+specification includes enough rope for an unwary developer to hang not
+only himself, but all of his friends, relations, and casual
+acquaintances.</p>
+
+<p>Along with the PKCS #11 library itself, the package includes a
+companion Python interface ("cryptech.py11"), which uses the ctypes
+module from the Python standard library to talk to the PKCS #11
+implementation.  The Python implementation is intended primarily to
+simplify testing the C code, but can be used for other purposes; while
+it seems unlikely that anything could ever make PKCS #11 "fun", the
+<code>cryptech.py11</code> library attempts to make it a bit less awful by
+providing both direct acess to the raw PKCS #11 API and a somewhat
+more "pythonic" API layered on top of the raw API.</p>
+
+<h2>Novel design features</h2>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.cryptsoft.com/pkcs11doc/STANDARD/" title="PKCS #11">PKCS11</a>'s data model involves an n-level-deep hierarchy of object
+classes, which is somewhat tedious to implement correctly in C,
+particularly if one wants the correspondence between specification and
+code to be at all obvious.  In order to automate much of the drudge
+work involved, this implementation uses an external representation of
+the object class hierarchy, which is processed at compile time by a
+Python script to generate tables which drive the C code which performs
+the necessary type checking.</p>
+
+<h2>Current status</h2>
+
+<p>As of this writing, the implementation supports only the RSA, ECDSA,
+SHA-1, and SHA-2 algorithms, but the design is intended to be
+extensible.</p>
+
+<p>The underlying cryptographic support comes from the <a href="https://cryptech.is/" title="Cryptech">Cryptech</a>
+<code>libhal</code> package.</p>
+
+<p>Testing to date has been done using the <code>bin/pkcs11/</code> tools from the
+BIND9 distribution, the <code>hsmcheck</code> and <code>ods-hsmutil</code> tools from the
+OpenDNSSEC distribution, the <code>hsmbully</code> diagnostic tool, the Google
+<code>pkcs11test</code> test suite, and a somewhat ad hoc set of unit tests using
+Python's unittest library along with our own <code>cryptech.py11</code> library.</p>
+
+<p>The library is also known to work as an <code>OpenSSL</code> engine when used
+with the <code>engine-pkcs11</code> package spun out of the OpenSC project.  This
+has not been tested extensively, but key generation, signature, and
+verification all work (with RSA keys -- the engine appears not to
+understand ECDSA keys, we have not investigated into details here).</p>
+
+<h2>Copyright status</h2>
+
+<p>The <a href="http://www.cryptsoft.com/pkcs11doc/STANDARD/" title="PKCS #11">PKCS11</a> header files are "derived from the RSA Security Inc.
+PKCS #11 Cryptographic Token Interface (Cryptoki)".  See the
+<code>pkcs11*.h</code> header files for details.</p>
+
+<p>Code written for the <a href="https://cryptech.is/" title="Cryptech">Cryptech</a> project is under the usual Cryptech
+BSD-style license.</p>
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