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authorlloyd <[email protected]>2008-09-29 20:17:08 +0000
committerlloyd <[email protected]>2008-09-29 20:17:08 +0000
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+This is the beginning of an attempt to SWIG-ify Botan so it can be accessed by
+other languages. You should use the latest SWIG 1.3 release (I am currently
+using SWIG 1.3.19). Currently I am only testing this code with Python 2.2.1,
+since that is the language I am mainly interested in at this point. Feel free
+to send me patches so this is usable with Perl or whatever.
+
+I'm not attempting to make everything in Botan usable from a script -
+basically, I just want the parts that *I* want to use. Most things are not
+supported yet, and there are lots of bugs in the stuff that does exist. If
+there is something in particular that you would like to be able to use from a
+script, let me know (patches are good, too).
+
+Todo:
+ * Why does it seg fault if we don't create a LibraryInitializer. It should
+ throw an exception, like it does in C++. Maybe have it init Botan when the
+ module is loaded? That seems a lot cleaner/nicer, but I don't know how to
+ do it yet.
+ * Lots of problems with exceptions
+ * Use constraints to prevent bad args when possible
+ * Pipe/Filter
+ - Better argument processing for all filters
+ - Support for ciphers, MACs, etc
+ - Chain + Fork
+ - Support for append/prepend/pop/reset in Pipe?
+ * Public Key Crypto
+ - RSA
+ - DSA
+ - DH
+ - Generic X.509 and PKCS #8 stuff
+ * PKI
+ - X.509 certs + CRLs
+ - PKCS #10 requests
+ - X.509 stores
+ - X.509 CA