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Subject: ANNOUNCE Pisces 1.0a1 release - DN [1]

Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@cnri.reston.va.us> - 27 Apr 2000 - comp.lang.python

 I'm pleased to announce the first alpha release of Pisces, a Python
 implementation of the SPKI/SDSI Certificate standard.

 http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/software/pisces/

 This release, 1.0 alpha 1, contains a mostly complete implementation
 of the SPKI/SDSI protocols.  It is missing a few features, like
 threshold subjects.  I hope to include these in the final 1.0 release.

 It also contains:

 - spkitool.py, a command-line utility for managing keys, certificates,
 and signatures in the style of PGP or GPG,

 - pyarrowd.py, a Yarrow-160 random number generator for Linux and
 Solaris,

 and

 - two demonstration applications, one implementing access controls on
 method calls of a Python instance and one implementing a client-server
 secure socket protocol in the style of TLS.

 I plan to issue a few more alpha and beta releases next month.  Any
 comments, suggestions, or questions are welcome.

 -- Jeremy Hylton <http://www.python.org/~jeremy/>;