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  <header>
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      <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
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    <title>crypto</title>
    <prepared>Peter H&ouml;gfeldt</prepared>
    <responsible>Peter H&ouml;gfeldt</responsible>
    <docno></docno>
    <approved>Peter H&ouml;gfeldt</approved>
    <checked>Peter H&ouml;gfeldt</checked>
    <date>2003-06-01</date>
    <rev>B</rev>
    <file>crypto_app.sgml</file>
  </header>
  <app>crypto</app>
  <appsummary>The Crypto Application</appsummary>
  <description>
    <p>The purpose of the Crypto application is to provide message
      digest and DES encryption for SMNPv3. It provides computation of
      message digests MD5 and SHA, and CBC-DES encryption and
      decryption.</p>
    <p></p>
  </description>

  <section>
    <title>Configuration</title>
    <p>The following environment configuration parameters are defined
      for the Crypto application. Refer to application(3) for more
      information about configuration parameters.
      </p>
    <taglist>
      <tag><c><![CDATA[debug = true | false <optional>]]></c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Causes debug information to be written to standard
          error or standard output. Default is <c>false</c>.
          </p>
      </item>
    </taglist>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>OpenSSL libraries</title>
    <p>The current implementation of the Erlang Crypto application is
      based on the <em>OpenSSL</em> package version 0.9.8 or higher.
      There are source and binary releases on the web.
      </p>
    <p>Source releases of OpenSSL can be downloaded from the <url href="http://www.openssl.org">OpenSSL</url> project home page,
      or mirror sites listed there.
      </p>
    <p>The same URL also contains links to some compiled binaries and
      libraries of OpenSSL (see the <c>Related/Binaries</c> menu) of
      which the <url href="http://www.shininglightpro.com/search.php?searchname=Win32+OpenSSL">Shining Light Productions Win32 and OpenSSL</url> pages are of
      interest for the Win32 user.
      </p>
    <p>For some Unix flavours there are binary packages available
      on the net.
      </p>
    <p>If you cannot find a suitable binary OpenSSL package, you
      have to fetch an OpenSSL source release and compile it.
      </p>
    <p>You then have to compile and install the library
      <c>libcrypto.so</c> (Unix), or the library <c>libeay32.dll</c>
      (Win32).
      </p>
    <p>For Unix The <c>crypto_drv</c> dynamic driver is delivered linked
      to OpenSSL libraries in <c>/usr/local/lib</c>, but the default
      dynamic linking will also accept libraries in <c>/lib</c> and
      <c>/usr/lib</c>.
      </p>
    <p>If that is not applicable to the particular Unix operating
      system used, the example <c>Makefile</c> in the Crypto
      <c>priv/obj</c> directory, should be used as a basis for 
      relinking the final version of the port program.
      </p>
    <p>For <c>Win32</c> it is only required that the library can be
      found from the <c>PATH</c> environment variable, or that they
      reside in the appropriate <c>SYSTEM32</c> directory; hence no
      particular relinking is need. Hence no example <c>Makefile</c>
      for Win32 is provided.</p>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <p>application(3)</p>
  </section>
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