thank you for the details. i am going to try it. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Nelson B Bolyard <nel...@bolyard.me> wrote:
> 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 >
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