How To Install cryptlib on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cryptlib on CentOS 7.
What is cryptlib
Cryptlib is a powerful security toolkit that allows even inexperienced crypto programmers to easily add encryption and authentication services to their software. The high-level interface provides anyone with the ability to add strong security capabilities to an application in as little as half an hour, without needing to know any of the low-level details that make the encryption or authentication work. Because of this, cryptlib dramatically reduces the cost involved in adding security to new or existing applications. At the highest level, cryptlib provides implementations of complete security services such as S/MIME and PGP/OpenPGP secure enveloping, SSL/TLS and SSH secure sessions, CA services such as CMP, SCEP, RTCS, and OCSP, and other security operations such as secure time-stamping. Since cryptlib uses industry-standard X.509, S/MIME, PGP/OpenPGP, and SSH/SSL/TLS data formats, the resulting encrypted or signed data can be easily transported to other systems and processed there, and cryptlib itself runs on virtually any operating system - cryptlib doesn’t tie you to a single system. This allows email, files and EDI transactions to be authenticated with digital signatures and encrypted in an industry-standard format.
We can use yum or dnf to install cryptlib on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cryptlib.
Install cryptlib on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install cryptlib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cryptlib
Install cryptlib on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install cryptlib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cryptlib
How To Uninstall cryptlib on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the cryptlib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cryptlib
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cryptlib on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
