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authorIngela Anderton Andin <[email protected]>2013-01-11 15:04:03 +0100
committerIngela Anderton Andin <[email protected]>2013-01-11 15:05:34 +0100
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public_key: Enhance documentation
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<header>
<copyright>
<year>2008</year>
- <year>2012</year>
+ <year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -36,11 +36,13 @@
<section>
<title>Purpose</title>
- <p> This application provides an API to public key infrastructure
- from <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5280.txt">RFC
- 5280</url> (X.509 certificates) and public key formats defined by
- the <url href="http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2124">
- PKCS-standard</url></p>
+ <p> public_key deals with public key related file formats, digital
+ signatures and <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5280.txt">
+ X-509 certificates</url>. It is a library application that
+ provides encode/decode, sign/verify, encrypt/decrypt and similar
+ functionality, it does not read or write files it expects or returns
+ file contents or partial file contents as binaries.
+ </p>
</section>
<section>
@@ -51,9 +53,9 @@
<section>
<title>Performance tips</title>
- <p>The public_key decode and encode functions will try to use the nifs
- which are in the asn1 compilers runtime modules if they can be found.
- So for the best performance you want to have the asn1 application in the
+ <p>The public_key decode and encode functions will try to use the NIFs
+ which are in the ASN1 compilers runtime modules if they can be found.
+ So for the best performance you want to have the ASN1 application in the
path of your system. </p>
</section>