$Id: README 3150 2010-04-08 11:36:13Z jakob $


INTRODUCTION

  OpenDNSSEC was created as an open-source turn-key solution for DNSSEC.
  It secures zone data just before it is published in an authoritative
  name server.


MORE INFORMATION

  More informnation can be found at the project website available at
  http://www.opendnssec.org/ and on the development WIKI/TRAC at
  http://trac.opendnssec.org/.

  Information about announcements, bug reporting and mailing lists can
  be found at http://www.opendnssec.org/support/.


DEPENDENCIES

  OpenDNSSEC depends on  a number of external packages:

  - libmxl2 (including xmllint)
  - LDNS
  - SQLite3
  - Python
  - 4Suite Python XML Library

  To run OpenDNSSEC, one must have at least one crypto module providing a
  PKCS#11 library, e.g. SoftHSM (http://www.opendnssec.org/softHSM)

  The Auditor has some additional dependencies:

  - Ruby
  - rubygems
    * syslog
    * openssl
    * dnsruby
    * xsd/datatypes
    * rexml/document

  When building from the subversion repository, the following dependencies
  are also needed:

  - A Java runtime environment (JRE/JDK)

