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.