marcelino jr esguerra wrote, On 2009-03-05 23:00: > i need to test my pkcs implementation using pk11mode and pk11util. has > anyone successfully used these?
Yes. pk11mode is used in NSS's ongoing QA testing for FIPS compliance. pk11util is not used in that testing (AFAIK) and I don't know what state it's in. > i just want to ask what to do about using these. how to build? what > files to be downloaded from the mozilla cvs? > > responses would be much appreciated. i really need to test my pkcs 11 > implementation. thank you. The instructions for downloading and building may be found at https://developer.mozilla.org/En/NSS_reference/Building_and_installing_NSS/Build_instructions Step by step instructions are found in the bottom half of the page. The top half tells you about environment variables you may want to set before starting the build. The instructions tell you how to build both NSS and NSPR. NSS depends on NSPR, so you need both. On most platforms except Windows, you are likely to already have all the tools you need to build NSS and NSPR. On Windows, getting all the tools can be tedious. We generally build on Windows with one of the freely downloadable MS C compilers, such as MSVC 2005 express or MSVC 2008. You also need a Unix-like shell (POSIX or korn), gmake, etc. If you already have a Unix-like development environment for Windows, such as the MKS Toolkit (which I use) or MinGW, you may have all you need. (Cygwin is not recommended by the NSS team.) If not, you might download the latest free package of such tools available from Mozilla in the directory ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/ I have heard that that free package contains all you need, but I have never used it, so I have no first hand knowledge of it. Hope this helps. Others may have more info for you in subsequent posts. -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
