Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA)
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Author: Justin Karneges <justin@affinix.com>


About QCA
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This library provides an easy API for a range of cryptographic
features, including SSL/TLS, X.509 certificates, SASL, symmetric
ciphers, public key ciphers, hashes and much more.

Functionality is supplied via plugins.  This is useful for avoiding
dependence on a particular crypto library and makes upgrading easier,
as there is no need to recompile your application when adding or
upgrading a crypto plugin.  Also, by pushing crypto functionality into
plugins, your application is free of legal issues, such as export
regulation.


Building from a Source package
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See the 'INSTALL' file.


Building from CVS/SVN
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First, install the 'qconf' program, at least version 1.3.  You can download
the source here:
  http://delta.affinix.com/qconf/

Then, go into the QCA source tree and type 'qconf'.  You should now have a
configure script to execute.

When you execute that script, you should see something like the following:

     Configuring Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) ...
     Verifying Qt 4 build environment ... ok
     Checking for certstore ... using bundled

     Good, your configure finished.  Now run /usr/bin/gmake.

If so, you can just run (g)make to build QCA. If not, have a look at
conf.log to see what might have gone wrong.


You will also need to build appropriate plugins to get support for
many of the QCA features.