wolfCrypt is a lightweight, portable, C-language-based crypto library targeted at IoT, embedded, and RTOS environments primarily because of its size, speed, and feature set. It works seamlessly in desktop, enterprise, and cloud environments as well.

Installation

Dependencies

Before installing wolfcrypt, make sure you have wolfssl C library installed in your machine:

$ git clone git@github.com:wolfssl/wolfssl.git
$ cd wolfssl
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Linux ONLY: Update your dynamic linker:

$ sudo ldconfig
# or
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

Linux ONLY: Make sure you have python-dev, python3-dev, python-pip and libffi-dev installed:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python-dev python3-dev python-pip libffi-dev

Now, you can install wolfcrypt via pip or source code:

wolfcrypt pip installation

To install wolfcrypt with pip:

$ sudo -H pip install wolfcrypt

wolfcrypt source installation

Get the sources:

$ git clone git@github.com:wolfssl/wolfssl.git
$ cd wolfssl/wrapper/python

Before proceeding with installation, you can test wolfcrypt locally with tox. If you don't want to run the tests, jump to step 4 instead.

Make sure that the testing requirements are installed:

$ sudo -H pip install -r requirements-testing.txt

Run tox:

$ tox
...
_________________________________ summary _________________________________
py27: commands succeeded
SKIPPED: py34: InterpreterNotFound: python3.4
py35: commands succeeded
congratulations :)

Note that some tests might be skipped if you don't have the proper interpreter.

Now, to install wolfcrypt from sources:

Build and install wolfcrypt

$ sudo python setup.py install
...
Finished processing dependencies for wolfcrypt...