evotum-cripto 1.0.1

eVotUM Cripto

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# eVotUM - Electronic Voting System
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# README
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# README file with the information to install and use the eVotUM python module
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# José Pina Miranda - Devise Futures, Lda. ([e-mail])
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eVotUM.Cripto setup

A. Before installing the required python modules (see requirements.txt), please make
sure that the following dependencies have been installed:

For Debian and Ubuntu, the following command will ensure that the required dependencies are installed:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev

For Fedora and RHEL-derivatives, the following command will ensure that the required dependencies are installed:
$ sudo yum install gcc libffi-devel python-devel openssl-devel


B. Since random numbers are generated using eVotUM.Cripto and several systems are not able
to generate the necessary entropy (especially in Shamir Secret Sharing functions)
for /dev/random, please install haveged (http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/index.html)
before running eVotUM.Cripto.

For Debian and Ubuntu, the following command will ensure that haveged is installed:
$ sudo apt-get install haveged

For Fedora and RHEL-derivatives, the following command will ensure that haveged is installed:
$ sudo yum install haveged


C. To install the eVotUM.Cripto python module, please follow the following steps:
1. Please run the following command: 'python setup.py build'.
2. Please run the following command: 'sudo python setup.py install'.