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    <title>public_key</title>
    <prepared></prepared>
    <docno></docno>
    <date></date>
    <rev></rev>
    <file>public_key_app.sgml</file>
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  <app>public_key</app>
  <appsummary>Provides functions to handle public-key infrastructure. </appsummary>
  <description>
    
    <p> Provides encode/decode of different file formats (PEM, OpenSSH),
    digital signature and verification functions, 
    validation of certificate paths and certificate revocation lists (CRLs) and
    other functions for handling of certificates, keys and CRLs.</p>

    <list type="bulleted">
      <item>Supports <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5280.txt">RFC 5280 </url> -
      Internet X.509 Public-Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List 
      (CRL) Profile. Certificate policies supported since OTP-26.2 </item>
      <item>Supports <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3447.txt"> PKCS-1 </url> - 
      RSA Cryptography Standard </item>
      <item>Supports <url href="http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips186-3/fips_186-3.pdf"> DSS</url> - 
      Digital Signature Standard (DSA - Digital Signature Algorithm)</item>
      <item>Supports 
      <url href="http://www.emc.com/emc-plus/rsa-labs/standards-initiatives/pkcs-3-diffie-hellman-key-agreement-standar.htm"> PKCS-3 </url> - 
      Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Standard </item>
      <item>Supports <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2898.txt"> PKCS-5</url> - 
      Password-Based Cryptography Standard </item>
      <item>Supports <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/fc3565.txt"> AES </url> -
      Use of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Algorithm in Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
      </item>
      <item>Supports <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5208.txt"> PKCS-8</url> - 
      Private-Key Information Syntax Standard</item>
      <item>Supports <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5967.txt"> PKCS-10</url> - 
      Certification Request Syntax Standard</item>
    </list>
   </description>

  <section>
    <title>DEPENDENCIES</title>
    <p>The <c>public_key</c> application uses the 
    Crypto application to perform cryptographic operations and the
    ASN-1 application to handle PKIX-ASN-1 specifications, hence
    these applications must be loaded for the <c>public_key</c> application to work. 
    In an embedded environment this means they must be started with
    <c>application:start/[1,2]</c> before the <c>public_key</c> application is 
    started.</p>
  </section>
 
  <section>
    <title>ERROR LOGGER AND EVENT HANDLERS</title>
    <p> The <c>public_key</c> application is a library application
    and does not use the error logger. The functions will either succeed
    or fail with a runtime error.
    </p>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
	<p><seeerl marker="kernel:application">application(3)</seeerl></p>
  </section>
  
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