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  <header>
    <copyright>
      <year>2008</year>
      <year>2011</year>
      <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
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    <title>Introduction</title>
    <prepared>Ingela Anderton Andin</prepared>
    <responsible></responsible>
    <docno></docno>
    <approved></approved>
    <checked></checked>
    <date>2008-01-22</date>
    <rev>A</rev>
    <file>introduction.xml</file>
  </header>

  <section>
    <title>Purpose</title>
    <p> This application provides an API to public key infrastructure
    from  RFC 3280 (X.509 certificates) and public key formats defined
    by the PKCS-standard.</p>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Prerequisites</title>
    <p>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.</p>
  </section>

</chapter>