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一个小型证书管理系统

-------------------=[ XCA ]=---------------------


A graphical userinterface to OpenSSL.
handling keys, generating Certificate signing requests,
handling of client and root-certificates, 
as well as handling multiple CAs with signing , CRL
and certificate templates.



Requirements:
==============

for compilation, you need the following Libraries:

QT-2.2.4        from http://www.troll.no
BercleyDB-3.3   from http://www.sleepycat.com
OpenSSl-0.9.6   from http://www.openssl.org

GNU C++ compiler 2.95
GNU make



Installation:
=============

should be straight forward:
just type 'configure' to configure the package,
then type 'make' to compile
and as root: 'make install'
for installation

please contact me, if you could compile the program with other
than the recommended software packages, or on an other platform
than Linux, or if it failed :-)



Running/invoking:
=================

xca can be invoked with one argument (next to the usual X args) which is
the filename of the database created/used in ~/xca/ the default 
filename is xca.db

When running the software its usage should be straight forward.
Some functions can be reached via a context-menu by right-clicking
the cert/request/key.



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if there are any questions regarding this software,
dont hesitate to contact me:

[e-mail]


$Id: README,v 1.6 2002/10/17 17:13:20 chris Exp $