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diff --git a/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto_app.xml b/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto_app.xml index ee0889c39f..6d26076c04 100644 --- a/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto_app.xml +++ b/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto_app.xml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <!DOCTYPE appref SYSTEM "appref.dtd"> <appref> @@ -24,81 +24,28 @@ </legalnotice> <title>crypto</title> - <prepared>Peter Högfeldt</prepared> - <responsible>Peter Högfeldt</responsible> - <docno></docno> - <approved>Peter Högfeldt</approved> - <checked>Peter Högfeldt</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> |