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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.