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                      PaKChoiS -- http://www.manyfish.co.uk/pakchois/

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Introduction

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pakchois is just another PKCS#11 wrapper library.  pakchois aims to

provide a thin wrapper over the PKCS#11 interface.

The goals are:

1) to offer a modern* object-oriented C interface wrapper for PKCS#11.

2) to not hide or abstract away any details of the PKCS#11 interface

itself except where absolutely necessary.

3) to handle the details of loading DSOs

4) to allow the caller to avoid caring about where on the system

PKCS#11 modules might be stored, or exactly how they are named.

5) to avoid any dependency on a particular cryptography toolkit.

Existing PKCS#11 wrapper libraries solutions differ in at least one of

the above goals.

*: "modern" being a euphemism for not using process-global state,

having a sane symbol namespace, etc.

Etymology

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"pakchois" is prounounced like the vegetable, "Pak Choi", with a

silent "s"; the word is pluralized only to make the PKCS acronym fit.

In this way the time-honoured tradition of naming projects by grepping

/usr/{share/,}dict/words is continued.