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diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/pkix_certs.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/pkix_certs.xml deleted file mode 100644 index f365acef4d..0000000000 --- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/pkix_certs.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,59 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> -<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> - -<chapter> - <header> - <copyright> - <year>2003</year><year>2016</year> - <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> - </copyright> - <legalnotice> - Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); - you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. - You may obtain a copy of the License at - - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 - - Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software - distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, - WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. - See the License for the specific language governing permissions and - limitations under the License. - - </legalnotice> - - <title>PKIX Certificates</title> - <prepared>UAB/F/P Peter Högfeldt</prepared> - <docno></docno> - <date>2003-06-09</date> - <rev>A</rev> - <file>pkix_certs.xml</file> - </header> - - <section> - <title>Introduction to Certificates</title> - <p>Certificates were originally defined by ITU (CCITT) and the latest - definitions are described in <cite id="X.509"></cite>, but those definitions - are (as always) not working. - </p> - <p>Working certificate definitions for the Internet Community are found - in the the PKIX RFCs <cite id="rfc3279"></cite> and <cite id="rfc3280"></cite>. - The parsing of certificates in the Erlang/OTP SSL application is - based on those RFCS. - </p> - <p>Certificates are defined in terms of ASN.1 (<cite id="X.680"></cite>). - For an introduction to ASN.1 see <url href="http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/">ASN.1 Information Site</url>. - </p> - </section> - - <section> - <title>PKIX Certificates</title> - <p>Certificate handling is now handled by the <c>public_key</c> application.</p> - <p> - DER encoded certificates returned by <c>ssl:peercert/1</c> can for example - be decoded by the <c>public_key:pkix_decode_cert/2</c> function. - </p> - </section> -</chapter> - - |