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<copyright>
<year>2003</year><year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
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<title>PKIX Certificates</title>
<prepared>UAB/F/P Peter Högfeldt</prepared>
<docno></docno>
<date>2003-06-09</date>
<rev>A</rev>
<file>pkix_certs.xml</file>
</header>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Certificates</title>
<p>Certificates were originally defined by ITU (CCITT) and the latest
definitions are described in <cite id="X.509"></cite>, but those definitions
are (as always) not working.
</p>
<p>Working certificate definitions for the Internet Community are found
in the the PKIX RFCs <cite id="rfc3279"></cite> and <cite id="rfc3280"></cite>.
The parsing of certificates in the Erlang/OTP SSL application is
based on those RFCS.
</p>
<p>Certificates are defined in terms of ASN.1 (<cite id="X.680"></cite>).
For an introduction to ASN.1 see <url href="http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/">ASN.1 Information Site</url>.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>PKIX Certificates</title>
<p>Certificate handling is now handled by the <c>public_key</c> application.</p>
<p>
DER encoded certificates returned by <c>ssl:peercert/1</c> can for example
be decoded by the <c>public_key:pkix_decode_cert/2</c> function.
</p>
</section>
</chapter>
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