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-rw-r--r--lib/public_key/doc/src/introduction.xml10
-rw-r--r--lib/public_key/doc/src/public_key.xml12
-rw-r--r--lib/public_key/doc/src/records.xml6
-rw-r--r--lib/public_key/doc/src/using_public_key.xml25
4 files changed, 27 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/lib/public_key/doc/src/introduction.xml b/lib/public_key/doc/src/introduction.xml
index 17f4e5155a..6542c8c509 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>2013</year>
+ <year>2015</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
<section>
<title>Purpose</title>
- <p>The <c>public_key</c> application deals with public-key related file
+ <p>The Public Key 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
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@
<section>
<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
+ <p>The Public Key decode- and encode-functions try to use the NIFs
+ in the ASN.1 compilers runtime modules, if they can be found.
+ Thus, to have the ASN1 application in the
path of your system gives the best performance.</p>
</section>
diff --git a/lib/public_key/doc/src/public_key.xml b/lib/public_key/doc/src/public_key.xml
index 3d5c135075..8a81593341 100644
--- a/lib/public_key/doc/src/public_key.xml
+++ b/lib/public_key/doc/src/public_key.xml
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@
<title>public_key</title>
<list type="bulleted">
- <item><c>public_key</c> requires the <c>crypto</c> and <c>ASN.1</c> applications,
- the latter as OTP R16 (hopefully the runtime dependency on <c>ASN.1</c> will
- be removed again in the future).</item>
+ <item> Public Key requires the Crypto and ASN1 applications,
+ the latter as OTP R16 (hopefully the runtime dependency on ASN1 will
+ be removed again in the future).</item>
<item>Supports <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5280.txt">RFC 5280 </url> -
Internet X.509 Public-Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
<fsummary>Decodes a public-key ASN.1 DER encoded entity.</fsummary>
<type>
<v>Asn1Type = atom()</v>
- <d>ASN.1 type present in the <c>public_key</c> applications
+ <d>ASN.1 type present in the Public Key applications
ASN.1 specifications.</d>
<v>Der = der_encoded()</v>
</type>
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
<fsummary>Encodes a public-key entity with ASN.1 DER encoding.</fsummary>
<type>
<v>Asn1Type = atom()</v>
- <d>ASN.1 type present in the public_key applications
+ <d>ASN.1 type present in the Public Key applications
ASN.1 specifications.</d>
<v>Entity = term()</v>
<d>Erlang representation of <c>Asn1Type</c></d>
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ fun(OtpCert :: #'OTPCertificate'{},
<p>The fun uses the information in the distribution point to access
the latest possible version of the CRL. If this fun is not specified,
- <c>public_key</c> uses the default implementation:
+ Public Key uses the default implementation:
</p>
<code> fun(_DP, CRL) -> CRL end</code>
</item>
diff --git a/lib/public_key/doc/src/records.xml b/lib/public_key/doc/src/records.xml
index ac1ecd176c..0090278da8 100644
--- a/lib/public_key/doc/src/records.xml
+++ b/lib/public_key/doc/src/records.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<header>
<copyright>
<year>2008</year>
- <year>2014</year>
+ <year>2015</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
<p>Common non-standard Erlang
data types used to describe the record fields in the
- following sections and which are not defined in the <c>public_key</c> <seealso
+ following sections and which are not defined in the Public Key <seealso
marker="public_key">Reference Manual</seealso>
follows here:</p>
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ are as follows:</p>
<p>Here:</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c>crl_reason()</c></tag>
- <item>= <p><c>unspecified</c>c></p>
+ <item>= <p><c>unspecified</c></p>
<p><c>| keyCompromise</c></p>
<p><c>| cACompromise</c></p>
<p><c>| affiliationChanged</c></p>
diff --git a/lib/public_key/doc/src/using_public_key.xml b/lib/public_key/doc/src/using_public_key.xml
index 69b8c0dcb9..aaf802cd34 100644
--- a/lib/public_key/doc/src/using_public_key.xml
+++ b/lib/public_key/doc/src/using_public_key.xml
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
</header>
<p>This section describes examples of how to use the
- <c>public_key</c> API. Keys and certificates used in the following
- sections are generated only for testing the <c>public_key</c>
+ Public Key API. Keys and certificates used in the following
+ sections are generated only for testing the Public Key
application.</p>
<p>Some shell printouts in the following examples
@@ -43,14 +43,15 @@
<p>Public-key data (keys, certificates, and so on) can be stored in
Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) format.
The PEM files have the following structure:</p>
-
- <code>&lt;text&gt;
- -----BEGIN &lt;SOMETHING&gt;-----
- &lt;Attribute&gt; : &lt;Value&gt;
- &lt;Base64 encoded DER data&gt;
- -----END &lt;SOMETHING&gt;-----
- &lt;text&gt;</code>
-
+
+ <code>
+ &lt;text&gt;
+ -----BEGIN &lt;SOMETHING&gt;-----
+ &lt;Attribute&gt; : &lt;Value&gt;
+ &lt;Base64 encoded DER data&gt;
+ -----END &lt;SOMETHING&gt;-----
+ &lt;text&gt;</code>
+
<p>A file can contain several <c>BEGIN/END</c> blocks. Text lines between
blocks are ignored. Attributes, if present, are ignored except
for <c>Proc-Type</c> and <c>DEK-Info</c>, which are used when <c>DER</c>
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@
<section>
<title>DSA Private Key</title>
<p>A DSA private key can look as follows:</p>
- <note><p>File handling is not done by the <c>public_key</c> application.</p></note>
+ <note><p>File handling is not done by the Public Key application.</p></note>
<code>1> {ok, PemBin} = file:read_file("dsa.pem").
{ok,&lt;&lt;"-----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nMIIBuw"...&gt;&gt;}</code>
@@ -364,7 +365,7 @@ ok</code>
<section>
<title>RSA Public-Key Cryptography</title>
- <p>Suppose you have the followwing private key and a corresponding public key:</p>
+ <p>Suppose you have the following private key and a corresponding public key:</p>
<list type="bulleted">
<item><c>PrivateKey = #'RSAPrivateKey{}'</c> and
the plaintext <c>Msg = binary()</c></item>