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<section>
<title>Purpose</title>
- <p> public_key deals with public key related file formats, digital
- signatures and <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5280.txt">
+ <p>The <c>public_key</c> application 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
+ 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>
<title>Prerequisites</title>
- <p>It is assumed that the reader has a basic understanding
- of the concepts of using public keys and digital certificates.</p>
+ <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming
+ language and has a basic understanding of the concepts of using public-keys
+ and digital certificates.</p>
</section>
<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
- path of your system. </p>
+ <title>Performance Tips</title>
+ <p>The <c>public_key</c> decode- and encode-functions try to use the NIFs
+ in the <c>ASN.1</c> compilers runtime modules, if they can be found.
+ Thus, to have the <c>ASN.1</c> application in the
+ path of your system gives the best performance.</p>
</section>
</chapter>