$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yubico/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-pyhsm
pydoc pyhsm
pydoc pyhsm.base
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yubico/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-pyhsm
pydoc pyhsm
pydoc pyhsm.base
python-pyhsm has been tested on Windows with Python 2.6 (2.7 will probably also work) from http://www.python.org/.
You need to install pySerial (tested with pyserial-2.5.win32.exe) from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial.
When you first insert the YubiHSM in your computer, Windows will indicate it cannot install the hardware. Download the .INF file from http://www.yubico.com/yubihsm/ and select that in the Windows dialog.
Now, you should be able to communicate with the YubiHSM from Python like this (for this simple test, I put a copy of the pyhsm source tree in Z:\tmp\pyhsm):
Z:\tmp\pyhsm>c:\Python26\python.exe
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:46:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append("Z:\\tmp\\pyhsm")
>>> import pyhsm
>>> hsm = pyhsm.YHSM(device = "COM3")
>>> hsm.info()
<YHSM_Cmd_System_Info instance at 0x191a148: ver=(0, 9, 8), proto=1, ...>
>>>
Here is how to for example get five bytes of random binary data from the YubiHSM:
>>> hsm.random(5)
'\x9c\x0fu\xcfP'
>>> hsm.random(5).encode("hex")
'b562456719'
>>>