= Welcome to libp11 =

Libp11 is a library implementing a small layer on top of PKCS!#11 API
to make using PKCS!#11 implementations easier. 

The official name for PKCS!#11 is
"RSA Security Inc. PKCS !#11 Cryptographic Token Interface (Cryptoki)".

The official header files for PKCS !#11 Standard are under a non-free license. 
Libp11 does not include these header files, but instead uses a rewritten pkcs11.h
header file from scute project, which is licensed as open source software.

Libp11 was written by an international team and is licensed as [http://www.opensource.org Open Source] software.
For a list of all authors and contributers as well as detailed license information see AuthorsAndCredits.

== Starting Points ==

 * [http://www.opensc-project.org/files/libp11/ Download] the lastest version of libp11.
 * QuickStart -- How to install libp11 and how to use it in your applications.
 * online API documentation at http://www.opensc-project.org/doc/libp11/api/index.html

 * MailingLists -- How to contact us.

 * ResourcesLinks -- Standards, Documents, etc.
 * SubversionReposity -- track our latest source code.
 * All changes are listed in the [file:ChangeLog ChangeLog] in the source code or [http://www.opensc-project.org/doc/libp11/ChangeLog online].