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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE appref SYSTEM "appref.dtd">
<appref>
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</legalnotice>
<title>crypto</title>
- <prepared>Peter H&ouml;gfeldt</prepared>
- <responsible>Peter H&ouml;gfeldt</responsible>
- <docno></docno>
- <approved>Peter H&ouml;gfeldt</approved>
- <checked>Peter H&ouml;gfeldt</checked>
- <date>2003-06-01</date>
- <rev>B</rev>
<file>crypto_app.sgml</file>
</header>
<app>crypto</app>
<appsummary>The Crypto Application</appsummary>
<description>
- <p>The purpose of the Crypto application is to provide message
- digest and DES encryption for SMNPv3. It provides computation of
- message digests MD5 and SHA, and CBC-DES encryption and
- decryption.</p>
- <p></p>
+ <p>The purpose of the Crypto application is to provide an Erlang API
+ to cryptographic functions, see <seealso marker="crypto">crypto(3)</seealso>.
+ Note that the API is on a fairly low level and there are some
+ corresponding API functions available in <seealso marker="public_key:public_key">public_key(3)</seealso>,
+ on a higher abstraction level, that uses the crypto application in its implementation.
+ </p>
</description>
<section>
- <title>Configuration</title>
- <p>The following environment configuration parameters are defined
- for the Crypto application. Refer to application(3) for more
- information about configuration parameters.
- </p>
- <taglist>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[debug = true | false <optional>]]></c></tag>
- <item>
- <p>Causes debug information to be written to standard
- error or standard output. Default is <c>false</c>.
- </p>
- </item>
- </taglist>
- </section>
+ <title>DEPENDENCIES</title>
- <section>
- <title>OpenSSL libraries</title>
- <p>The current implementation of the Erlang Crypto application is
- based on the <em>OpenSSL</em> package version 0.9.8 or higher.
- There are source and binary releases on the web.
- </p>
+ <p>The current crypto implementation uses nifs to interface OpenSSLs crypto library
+ and requires <em>OpenSSL</em> package version 0.9.8 or higher.</p>
<p>Source releases of OpenSSL can be downloaded from the <url href="http://www.openssl.org">OpenSSL</url> project home page,
- or mirror sites listed there.
- </p>
- <p>The same URL also contains links to some compiled binaries and
- libraries of OpenSSL (see the <c>Related/Binaries</c> menu) of
- which the <url href="http://www.shininglightpro.com/search.php?searchname=Win32+OpenSSL">Shining Light Productions Win32 and OpenSSL</url> pages are of
- interest for the Win32 user.
- </p>
- <p>For some Unix flavours there are binary packages available
- on the net.
- </p>
- <p>If you cannot find a suitable binary OpenSSL package, you
- have to fetch an OpenSSL source release and compile it.
- </p>
- <p>You then have to compile and install the library
- <c>libcrypto.so</c> (Unix), or the library <c>libeay32.dll</c>
- (Win32).
- </p>
- <p>For Unix The <c>crypto_drv</c> dynamic driver is delivered linked
- to OpenSSL libraries in <c>/usr/local/lib</c>, but the default
- dynamic linking will also accept libraries in <c>/lib</c> and
- <c>/usr/lib</c>.
- </p>
- <p>If that is not applicable to the particular Unix operating
- system used, the example <c>Makefile</c> in the Crypto
- <c>priv/obj</c> directory, should be used as a basis for
- relinking the final version of the port program.
- </p>
- <p>For <c>Win32</c> it is only required that the library can be
- found from the <c>PATH</c> environment variable, or that they
- reside in the appropriate <c>SYSTEM32</c> directory; hence no
- particular relinking is need. Hence no example <c>Makefile</c>
- for Win32 is provided.</p>
- </section>
+ or mirror sites listed there.
+ </p>
+ </section>
<section>
<title>SEE ALSO</title>