Pisces User Manual

Jeremy Hylton

Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Reston, VA
E-mail: jeremy@alum.mit.edu

Abstract:

Pisces is a Python implementation of the SPKI certificate standard. This document provides a brief introduction to SPKI (the Simple Public Key Infrastructure) and describes the tools available in the Pisces distribution. Pisces contains a library and command-line utility for creating and using SPKI certificates in Python. It also contains a toy secure socket library that demonstrates the use of the library.