[viff-devel] Problems installing pyOpenSSL with Python version 2.6.1

[Martin Geisler]

Håvard Vegge <havardv at stud.ntnu.no> writes:

Hi, welcome :-)

> I'm probably going to use VIFF as a part of my master thesis, but a
> problem have occurred when following the installation guide.

Wow, I look forward to seeing that thesis :-)

> I've installed:
> Python 2.6.1
> Twisted 8.2.0
> GMPY 1.03
> OpenSSL 0.9.8j
>
> I know the above are the latest releases (and not all according to the
> recommendations at http://viff.dk/doc/install.html ), but it has
> worked so far.

Yeah, it should be no problem to use different versions -- the only real
requirement that I know of is Python 2.4 or later. Apart from that I
don't think we push any of the libraries that hard.

> BUT, I can't manage to install PyOpenSSL.

Luckily it is optional and unless you explicitly ask for it, VIFF should
just work without it -- that is, --no-ssl is the default if the OpenSSL
package cannot be imported.

> The latest version is 0.8 and when trying to intall, it reports that
> Python version 2.5 is required... Shouldn't it work with version 2.6
> as well?

I don't think I have tried with Python 2.6. I'm using Python 2.5 on my
home Debian machine and Python 2.4 at the university.

> I see that eGenix.com have a version of pyOpenSSL that supports Python
> 2.6. Is this compatible with VIFF and all the other packages? Guess
> I'll just have to try...

I have never tried any of their packages, so I don't know.

-- 
Martin Geisler

VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient
SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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