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

You can install wolfcrypt via pip or source code, but before installing it, make sure you have wolfssl C library installed in your machine.

To install wolfssl do:

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

wolfcrypt pip installation

To install wolfcrypt with pip:

$ pip install wolfcrypt

or if you need admin privileges to use pip:

$ sudo -H pip install wolfcrypt

wolfcrypt source installation

To install wolfcrypt from sources:

Get the sources:

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

Build and install wolfcrypt

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

or if you need admin privileges to use the install command:

$ sudo python setup.py install

Testing

Test wolfcrypt locally with tox:

Make sure that the testing requirements are installed:

$ pip install -r requirements-testing.txt

Call tox:

$ tox
...
_________________________________ summary _________________________________
py27: commands succeeded
py35: commands succeeded
congratulations :)