The LibPKI Project is aimed to provide an easy-to-use PKI library for PKI enabled application development. The library provides the developer with all the needed functionalities to manage certificates, from generation to validation. The LibPKI Project enables developers with the possibility to implement complex cryptographic operations with a few simple function calls by implementing an high-level cryptographic API.

The library constitutes the core of the OpenCA-NG Project, anyway we provide it as a separate package in order to encourage applications developers to use it in their packages.

The LibPKI package is aimed to provide a all-in-one PKI handling. This includes not only digital certificates processing, but also communication with PKI building blocks (e.g. CA, RA, etc... ) and repository interaction (e.g. LDAP, HTTP, etc...). Read More...

• 19.04.2009 The new version (tiger/v0.3.0) of LibPKI is available for download. Many changes to the library and bug fixing over the old version. In particular: added support for Cross Certificate Pair (for bridge PKI support) via pki-xpair tool, updated the PRQP module to the last specs from IETF (draft-ietf-pkix-prqp-03.txt), added full support for PKCS#11 devices, a new pki-tool allows user to easily manage their PKI TOKENs (eg., generate keys, sign requests, sign certificates, etc.).
• 16.01.2009 The new version (shark/v0.2.0) of LibPKI is available for download. Many changes to the library and bug fixing over the old version. In particular: a new graphical installer for different distributions (Linux/Fedora, Linux/Ubuntu, MacOS X/Darwin, etc.), updated the PRQP module to the last specs from IETF (draft-ietf-pkix-prqp-02.txt), fixed support for multi threaded applications (dynamic and static threads initialization for OpenSSL/ENGINE), fixed support for nChipher devices, updated PKCS11 driver (added Slot Interface and Slot info retrieval functionalities)
• 20.03.2008 A new version (v0.1.9) of LibPKI is available for download. Many changes to the library, bug fixing and added support for advanced algorithms (RSA-SHA224, RSA-SHA256, RSA-SHA384, RSA-SHA512, ECDSA-SHA224, ECDSA-SHA256, ECDSA-SHA384, ECDSA-SHA512, DSA-SHA224, DSA-SHA256).
• 31.10.2007 Updated LibPKI documentation (v0.1.8) is now available.
• 26.10.2007 A new version (v0.1.8) of LibPKI is available for download. Many changes to the library, among these: included support for PRQP, enhanced HSM support, allowing for token configurations in user's home directory under the .libpki/ dir.
• 23.08.2007 Updated Docs are available from the docs section
• 23.08.2007 New vesion of LibPKI (0.1.6) is available for download. Many new features have been added, among them: Support for PKI data retrieval from different sources through the URL interface (file://, http://, ldap://, mysql://, pg://), Improved support for different systems (OpenSolaris, Linux, BSD, etc... ), a new simplified configuration of OIDs, Certificate Profiles and hardware tokens through XML configuration files, etc...
• 20.04.2007 Added library documentation Docs and FAQs section.
• 15.03.2007 First code is available from the download section.