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== GENERAL INFORMATION ==

Plug-in Name: Stix
Version: 1.0.0
PL: Perl
OS: RHEL 6


== DESCRIPTION ==

This is a Perl plug-in for CIF that passes JSON-like formatted result of CIF query to Python module to build STIX/Cybox document.

== INSTUCTIONS ==

The Perl plug-in requires installation of:
- IPC-Run (IPC::Run qw(run))

Make sure that installation structure exists under CIF location: lib>>Iodef>>Pb>>Format.

Copy the plug-in (Stix.pm) into /Format/ directory.

To integrate it with the Python module, provide a full path to the Python Module (cif-json2stix.py) in $pythonmodule.

If Python module is not installed yet, uncomment following line in the code: push(@cmd,'python2.6').

== OTHER ==

Contributor: Nataliya A. Shevchenko, SEI CERT
Date: December 4th, 2013