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author | Ingela Anderton Andin <[email protected]> | 2013-01-11 15:04:03 +0100 |
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committer | Ingela Anderton Andin <[email protected]> | 2013-01-11 15:05:34 +0100 |
commit | 228aa99db473dc2145c8f55819e972f5dc6bb501 (patch) | |
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public_key: Enhance documentation
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diff --git a/lib/public_key/doc/src/introduction.xml b/lib/public_key/doc/src/introduction.xml index e0dd5603f7..4b59cc2245 100644 --- a/lib/public_key/doc/src/introduction.xml +++ b/lib/public_key/doc/src/introduction.xml @@ -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> |