SoftHSM is an implementation of a cryptographic
store accessible through a PKCS#11 interface. You
can use it to explore PKCS#11 without having a
Hardware Security Module. It is being developed as
a part of the OpenDNSSEC project. SoftHSM uses
Botan for its cryptographic operations.
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The library is now installed in $libdir/softhsm/. This release does not give a warning about the schema version if the token has not been initialized yet. The tools now return the correct exit code.
The --disable-64bit option is respected. $DESTDIR is respected for configuration files. The binaries can now show the version number. softhsm-keyconv could not handle --ttl properly. softhsm is linked statically with libsofthsm. libsofthsm.so is built without a version number. libsofthsm.so is now a loadable module.
Documentation on how to do backup was added. The number of concurrent sessions is limited to 256, because SQLite has a limit on the number of database connections. A sample of the configuration file is installed. Manual pages are now available for softhsm, softhsm-keyconv, and softhsm.conf. The –enable-64bit configure option now works correctly. There is a known bug in which a version of Botan available in some operating systems has a problem with the entropy. This causes SoftHSM to freeze in some operations. This can be worked around by upgrading to Botan 1.8.5 or greater.
This release fixed a bug where signing could not be performed when another application had a lock on the database. The database connection is now checked. Upgrading to Botan 1.8.5 or later is recommended to fix a freeze due to entropy problems that occurred during some operations
/usr/local, /etc, and /var are used by default. The performance of creating keys was improved. An error message is logged if the database cannot be opened. There is a known bug in which a version of Botan available in some OSes has a problem with the entropy. This causes SoftHSM to freeze in some operations. This problem can be worked around by upgrading to Botan 1.8.5 or greater.
