I am currently trying to get a SoftHSM going (on a Windows platform). The goal is establish a communication channel between a client and the HSM server so that some data can be encrypted on the server side and be sent back to the calling client.
I download one from this site: https://www.opendnssec.org/download/
Furthermore, I followed the documentation as stated on this page: https://wiki.opendnssec.org/display/SoftHSMDOCS/SoftHSM+Documentation+Home - but besides from creating a couple of slots, I haven't managed to get anything right.
I ran the following command to create the slot(s):
softhsm --init-token --slot 0 --label "My token 1"
I am not sure how to go from here, I cannot find any useful information / tutorials about the topic. I guess that I should start small and try and create a server application that communicates to the SoftHSM ... I apologize for all the n00b questions!!
If the installation was successful
in /usr/local/bin/softshm there should be the file libsofthsm.so.
This file contains the implementation of crytoki api -
and you can use it like- so/dll that comes with hardware of pkcs#11