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| author | Ingela Anderton Andin <[email protected]> | 2015-05-07 14:09:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingela Anderton Andin <[email protected]> | 2015-05-07 15:50:57 +0200 |
| commit | 631489eb5f989f06de993004ae6db58f07465ccb (patch) | |
| tree | 87be163b0611556872e6ebf01564e9e6dd29c964 /lib/public_key/doc/src | |
| parent | fafd888770d16d2a3962210c04a0b341311a13c8 (diff) | |
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public_key: Add clarifications
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/public_key/doc/src/records.xml | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/public_key/doc/src/using_public_key.xml | 4 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/public_key/doc/src/records.xml b/lib/public_key/doc/src/records.xml index e9e9b231af..9536167839 100644 --- a/lib/public_key/doc/src/records.xml +++ b/lib/public_key/doc/src/records.xml @@ -96,6 +96,15 @@ <p><c>| privilegeWithdrawn</c></p> <p><c>| aACompromise</c></p> </item> + + <tag><c>OID_macro()</c></tag> + <item>= <p><c>?OID_name() </c></p> + </item> + + <tag><c>OID_name()</c></tag> + <item>= <p><c>atom()</c></p> + </item> + </taglist> </section> @@ -196,7 +205,7 @@ <section> <title>PKIX Certificates</title> <p>Erlang representation of PKIX certificates derived from ASN.1 - specifications see also <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5280.txt">X509 certificates (RFC 5280)</url> are as follows:</p> + specifications see also <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5280.txt">X509 certificates (RFC 5280)</url>, also referred to as <c>plain</c> type, are as follows:</p> <code> #'Certificate'{ tbsCertificate, % #'TBSCertificate'{} @@ -222,6 +231,8 @@ parameters % der_encoded() }.</code> +<p>Erlang alternate representation of PKIX certificate, also referred to as <c>otp</c> type</p> + <code> #'OTPCertificate'{ tbsCertificate, % #'OTPTBSCertificate'{} @@ -247,8 +258,8 @@ parameters % asn1_novalue | #'Dss-Parms'{} }.</code> -<p>Here, <c>id_signature_algorithm()</c> = ?OID name, for available OID names, for example -<c>?id-dsa-with-sha1</c>. That is, by prepending "?" to the OID name, represented as an Erlang atom.</p> +<p><c>id_signature_algorithm() = OID_macro()</c></p> + <p>The available OID names are as follows:</p> <table> <row> diff --git a/lib/public_key/doc/src/using_public_key.xml b/lib/public_key/doc/src/using_public_key.xml index 41a81b6dea..03e4bedf3d 100644 --- a/lib/public_key/doc/src/using_public_key.xml +++ b/lib/public_key/doc/src/using_public_key.xml @@ -381,7 +381,9 @@ Msg = public_key:decrypt_public(RsaEncrypted, PublicKey),</code> Msg = public_key:decrypt_private(RsaEncrypted, PrivateKey),</code> <note><p>You normally do only one of the encrypt or decrypt operations, - and the peer does the other.</p></note> + and the peer does the other. This normaly used in legacy applications + as a primitive digital signature. + </p></note> </section> |