PerlCryptLib v.1.12 - 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 (and later) on unix/linux Installation ------------ PerlCryptLib need to know the path to cryptlib.h header file for the libcl installed in the system. You can set (export) environment variable PERL_CRYPT_LIB_HEADER or, alternatively, Makefile.PL try itself to search for cryptlib.h in /home directory. Simply do: $ tar -xvzf PerlCryptLib-x.xx.tar.gz $ cd PerlCryptLib-x.xx $ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ make test $ sudo 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