Pisces User Manual

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Contents

• Contents
• 1. Introduction
• 2. An Example
• 3. Command-Line Utility: spkitool.py
  • 3.1 spkitool.py command reference
• 4. Other command-line scripts
  • 4.1 pyarrowd.py command reference
• 5. Pisces Library Reference
  • 5.1 pisces.algid - Constants for PKCS #1 AlgorithmIdentifiers
  • 5.2 pisces.asn1 - Encode and decode ASN.1 BER format
  • 5.3 pisces.cryptrand - Interface to cryptographic random number generators
  • 5.4 pisces.egdlib - Interface to the Entropy Gathering Daemon
  • 5.5 pisces.hmac - Keyed-hashing for message authentication
  • 5.6 pisces.pkcs1 - A PKCS #1 wrapper for Crypto.PublicKey.RSA keys
  • 5.7 pisces.pwcrypt - Support for password-based cryptography (PKCS #5)
  • 5.8 pisces.utils - Internal pisces utility functions
  • 5.9 pisces.yarrow - Yarrow random number generator
  • 5.10 pisces.ttls - Trivial transport-layer security
  • 5.11 pisces.spkilib - SPKI package
  • 5.12 pisces.spkilib.config - Configuration and command-line argument handling
  • 5.13 pisces.spkilib.database - Store keys and certificates in text file
  • 5.14 pisces.spkilib.keystore - Abstract storage interface for keys and certifications
  • 5.15 pisces.spkilib.sexp - Support routines from S-expressions
  • 5.16 pisces.spkilib.sexpsocket - Send and receive s-exps over sockets
  • 5.17 pisces.spkilib.spki - Core SPKI implementation
  • 5.18 pisces.spkilib.verify - Certificate chain verification
• A. Installation
• Bibliography

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Footnotes

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Acknowledgements. Roger Masse and Guido van Rossum made helpful comments on library design. The HMAC implementation is based on an earlier version by Barry Warsaw. This work was supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense under grant MDA972-95-1-0003.

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