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User's Guide
Version 0.5

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Chapters

• Introduction
  • Top of chapter
  • Purpose
  • Prerequisites
• Public key records
  • Top of chapter
  • RSA as defined by the PKCS-1 standard and RFC 3447.
  • DSA as defined by Digital Signature Standard (NIST FIPS PUB 186-2)
• Certificate records
  • Top of chapter
  • Common Data Types
  • PKIX Certificates
  • Standard certificate extensions
  • Private Internet Extensions
  • CRL and CRL Extensions Profile

1 Introduction

1.1  Purpose

This application provides an API to public key infrastructure from RFC 3280 (X.509 certificates) and public key formats defined by the PKCS-standard.

1.2  Prerequisites

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language, concepts of OTP and has a basic understanding of the concepts of using public keys.