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    <title>Getting Started</title>
    <prepared></prepared>
    <docno></docno>
    <date></date>
    <rev></rev>
    <file>using_public_key.xml</file>
  </header>

  <p>This section describes examples of how to use the 
    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
    are abbreviated for increased readability.</p>

     
  <section>
    <title>PEM Files</title>
    <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>
    
    <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> 
    data is encrypted.</p>

    <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 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>
      
      <p>The following PEM file has only one entry, a private DSA key:</p>
      <code>2> [DSAEntry] =  public_key:pem_decode(PemBin).
[{'DSAPrivateKey',&lt;&lt;48,130,1,187,2,1,0,2,129,129,0,183,
                    179,230,217,37,99,144,157,21,228,204,
		    162,207,61,246,...&gt;&gt;,
		    not_encrypted}]</code>
      
      <code>3> Key = public_key:pem_entry_decode(DSAEntry).
#'DSAPrivateKey'{version = 0,
                 p = 12900045185019966618...6593,
                 q = 1216700114794736143432235288305776850295620488937,
                 g = 10442040227452349332...47213,
                 y = 87256807980030509074...403143,
                 x = 510968529856012146351317363807366575075645839654}</code>
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>RSA Private Key with Password</title>
      <p>An RSA private key encrypted with a password can look as follows:</p>
      
      <code>1> {ok, PemBin} = file:read_file("rsa.pem").
{ok,&lt;&lt;"Bag Attribut"...&gt;&gt;}</code>

    <p>The following PEM file has only one entry, a private RSA key:</p>
    <code>2>[RSAEntry] = public_key:pem_decode(PemBin).
[{'RSAPrivateKey',&lt;&lt;224,108,117,203,152,40,15,77,128,126,
                    221,195,154,249,85,208,202,251,109,
                    119,120,57,29,89,19,9,...&gt;&gt;,
                  {"DES-EDE3-CBC",&lt;&lt;"kÙeø¼pµL"&gt;&gt;}}]</code>

    <p>In this following example, the password is <c>"abcd1234"</c>:</p>
    <code>3> Key = public_key:pem_entry_decode(RSAEntry, "abcd1234").
    #'RSAPrivateKey'{version = 'two-prime',
                 modulus = 1112355156729921663373...2737107,
                 publicExponent = 65537,
                 privateExponent = 58064406231183...2239766033,
                 prime1 = 11034766614656598484098...7326883017,
                 prime2 = 10080459293561036618240...77738643771,
                 exponent1 = 77928819327425934607...22152984217,
                 exponent2 = 36287623121853605733...20588523793,
                 coefficient = 924840412626098444...41820968343,
                 otherPrimeInfos = asn1_NOVALUE}</code>
    </section>
  
  <section>
    <title>X509 Certificates</title>
    <p>The following is an example of X509 certificates:</p>
    
      <code>1> {ok, PemBin} = file:read_file("cacerts.pem").
{ok,&lt;&lt;"-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\nMIIC7jCCAl"...&gt;&gt;}</code>

      <p>The following file includes two certificates:</p>
      <code>2> [CertEntry1, CertEntry2] = public_key:pem_decode(PemBin).
[{'Certificate',&lt;&lt;48,130,2,238,48,130,2,87,160,3,2,1,2,2,
                  9,0,230,145,97,214,191,2,120,150,48,13,
                  ...&gt;&gt;,
                not_encrypted},
 {'Certificate',&lt;&lt;48,130,3,200,48,130,3,49,160,3,2,1,2,2,1,
                  1,48,13,6,9,42,134,72,134,247,...&gt;&gt;>,
                not_encrypted}]</code>
      
      <p>Certificates can be decoded as usual:</p>
      <code>2> Cert = public_key:pem_entry_decode(CertEntry1).
#'Certificate'{
    tbsCertificate =
        #'TBSCertificate'{
            version = v3,serialNumber = 16614168075301976214,
            signature =
                #'AlgorithmIdentifier'{
                    algorithm = {1,2,840,113549,1,1,5},
                    parameters = &lt;&lt;5,0&gt;&gt;},
            issuer =
                {rdnSequence,
                    [[#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,3},
                          value = &lt;&lt;19,8,101,114,108,97,110,103,67,65&gt;&gt;}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,11},
                          value = &lt;&lt;19,10,69,114,108,97,110,103,32,79,84,80&gt;&gt;}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,10},
                          value = &lt;&lt;19,11,69,114,105,99,115,115,111,110,32,65,66&gt;&gt;}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,7},
                          value = &lt;&lt;19,9,83,116,111,99,107,104,111,108,109&gt;&gt;}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,6},
                          value = &lt;&lt;19,2,83,69&gt;&gt;}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {1,2,840,113549,1,9,1},
                          value = &lt;&lt;22,22,112,101,116,101,114,64,101,114,...&gt;&gt;}]]},
            validity =
                #'Validity'{
                    notBefore = {utcTime,"080109082929Z"},
                    notAfter = {utcTime,"080208082929Z"}},
            subject =
                {rdnSequence,
                    [[#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,3},
                          value = &lt;&lt;19,8,101,114,108,97,110,103,67,65&gt;&gt;}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,11},
                          value = &lt;&lt;19,10,69,114,108,97,110,103,32,79,84,80&gt;&gt;}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,10},
                          value = &lt;&lt;19,11,69,114,105,99,115,115,111,110,32,...&gt;&gt;}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,7},
                          value = &lt;&lt;19,9,83,116,111,99,107,104,111,108,...&gt;&gt;}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,6},
                          value = &lt;&lt;19,2,83,69&gt;&gt;}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {1,2,840,113549,1,9,1},
                          value = &lt;&lt;22,22,112,101,116,101,114,64,...&gt;&gt;}]]},
            subjectPublicKeyInfo =
                #'SubjectPublicKeyInfo'{
                    algorithm =
                        #'AlgorithmIdentifier'{
                            algorithm = {1,2,840,113549,1,1,1},
                            parameters = &lt;&lt;5,0&gt;&gt;},
                    subjectPublicKey =
                        {0,&lt;&lt;48,129,137,2,129,129,0,203,209,187,77,73,231,90,...&gt;&gt;}},
            issuerUniqueID = asn1_NOVALUE,
            subjectUniqueID = asn1_NOVALUE,
            extensions =
                [#'Extension'{
                     extnID = {2,5,29,19},
                     critical = true,
                     extnValue = [48,3,1,1,255]},
                 #'Extension'{
                     extnID = {2,5,29,15},
                     critical = false,
                     extnValue = [3,2,1,6]},
                 #'Extension'{
                     extnID = {2,5,29,14},
                     critical = false,
                     extnValue = [4,20,27,217,65,152,6,30,142|...]},
                 #'Extension'{
                     extnID = {2,5,29,17},
                     critical = false,
                     extnValue = [48,24,129,22,112,101,116,101|...]}]},
    signatureAlgorithm =
        #'AlgorithmIdentifier'{
            algorithm = {1,2,840,113549,1,1,5},
            parameters = &lt;&lt;5,0&gt;&gt;},
    signature =
    &lt;&lt;163,186,7,163,216,152,63,47,154,234,139,73,154,96,120,
    165,2,52,196,195,109,167,192,...&gt;&gt;}</code>

      <p>Parts of certificates can be decoded with
      <c>public_key:der_decode/2</c>, using the ASN.1 type of that part.
      However, an application-specific certificate extension requires 
      application-specific ASN.1 decode/encode-functions.
      In the recent example, the first value of <c>rdnSequence</c> is 
      of ASN.1 type <c>'X520CommonName'. ({2,5,4,3} = ?id-at-commonName)</c>:</p>
      
      <code>public_key:der_decode('X520CommonName', &lt;&lt;19,8,101,114,108,97,110,103,67,65&gt;&gt;).
{printableString,"erlangCA"}</code>

      <p>However, certificates can also be decoded using <c>pkix_decode_cert/2</c>, 
      which can customize and recursively decode standard parts of a certificate:</p>

      <code>3>{_, DerCert, _} = CertEntry1.</code>

      <code>4> public_key:pkix_decode_cert(DerCert, otp).
#'OTPCertificate'{
    tbsCertificate =
        #'OTPTBSCertificate'{
            version = v3,serialNumber = 16614168075301976214,
            signature =
                #'SignatureAlgorithm'{
                    algorithm = {1,2,840,113549,1,1,5},
                    parameters = 'NULL'},
            issuer =
                {rdnSequence,
                    [[#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,3},
                          value = {printableString,"erlangCA"}}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,11},
                          value = {printableString,"Erlang OTP"}}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,10},
                          value = {printableString,"Ericsson AB"}}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,7},
                          value = {printableString,"Stockholm"}}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{type = {2,5,4,6},value = "SE"}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {1,2,840,113549,1,9,1},
                          value = "[email protected]"}]]},
            validity =
                #'Validity'{
                    notBefore = {utcTime,"080109082929Z"},
                    notAfter = {utcTime,"080208082929Z"}},
            subject =
                {rdnSequence,
                    [[#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,3},
                          value = {printableString,"erlangCA"}}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,11},
                          value = {printableString,"Erlang OTP"}}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,10},
                          value = {printableString,"Ericsson AB"}}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {2,5,4,7},
                          value = {printableString,"Stockholm"}}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{type = {2,5,4,6},value = "SE"}],
                     [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
                          type = {1,2,840,113549,1,9,1},
                          value = "[email protected]"}]]},
            subjectPublicKeyInfo =
                #'OTPSubjectPublicKeyInfo'{
                    algorithm =
                        #'PublicKeyAlgorithm'{
                            algorithm = {1,2,840,113549,1,1,1},
                            parameters = 'NULL'},
                    subjectPublicKey =
                        #'RSAPublicKey'{
                            modulus =
                                1431267547247997...37419,
                            publicExponent = 65537}},
            issuerUniqueID = asn1_NOVALUE,
            subjectUniqueID = asn1_NOVALUE,
            extensions =
                [#'Extension'{
                     extnID = {2,5,29,19},
                     critical = true,
                     extnValue =
                         #'BasicConstraints'{
                             cA = true,pathLenConstraint = asn1_NOVALUE}},
                 #'Extension'{
                     extnID = {2,5,29,15},
                     critical = false,
                     extnValue = [keyCertSign,cRLSign]},
                 #'Extension'{
                     extnID = {2,5,29,14},
                     critical = false,
                     extnValue = [27,217,65,152,6,30,142,132,245|...]},
                 #'Extension'{
                     extnID = {2,5,29,17},
                     critical = false,
                     extnValue = [{rfc822Name,"[email protected]"}]}]},
    signatureAlgorithm =
        #'SignatureAlgorithm'{
            algorithm = {1,2,840,113549,1,1,5},
            parameters = 'NULL'},
    signature =
         &lt;&lt;163,186,7,163,216,152,63,47,154,234,139,73,154,96,120,
           165,2,52,196,195,109,167,192,...&gt;&gt;}</code>

      <p>This call is equivalent to <c>public_key:pem_entry_decode(CertEntry1)</c>:</p>
      <code>5> public_key:pkix_decode_cert(DerCert, plain).
#'Certificate'{ ...}</code>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Encoding Public-Key Data to PEM Format</title>

    <p>If you have public-key data and want to create a PEM file
    this can be done by calling functions
    <c>public_key:pem_entry_encode/2</c> and <c>pem_encode/1</c> and 
    saving the result to a file. For example, assume that you have 
    <c>PubKey = 'RSAPublicKey'{}</c>. Then you can create a PEM-"RSA PUBLIC KEY" 
    file (ASN.1 type <c>'RSAPublicKey'</c>) or a PEM-"PUBLIC KEY" file
    (<c>'SubjectPublicKeyInfo'</c> ASN.1 type).</p>

    <p>The second element of the PEM-entry is the ASN.1 <c>DER</c> encoded
    key data:</p>

    <code>1> PemEntry = public_key:pem_entry_encode('RSAPublicKey', RSAPubKey).
{'RSAPublicKey', &lt;&lt;48,72,...&gt;&gt;, not_encrypted}

2> PemBin = public_key:pem_encode([PemEntry]).
&lt;&lt;"-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----\nMEgC...&gt;&gt;

3> file:write_file("rsa_pub_key.pem", PemBin).
ok</code>

    <p>or:</p>

    <code>1> PemEntry = public_key:pem_entry_encode('SubjectPublicKeyInfo', RSAPubKey).
{'SubjectPublicKeyInfo', &lt;&lt;48,92...&gt;&gt;, not_encrypted}

2> PemBin = public_key:pem_encode([PemEntry]).
&lt;&lt;"-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMFw...&gt;&gt;

3> file:write_file("pub_key.pem", PemBin).
ok</code>

  </section>
</section>

<section>
      <title>RSA Public-Key Cryptography</title>
       <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>
	 <item><c>PublicKey = #'RSAPublicKey'{}</c>
	 </item>
       </list>
       <p>Then you can proceed as follows:</p>

       <p>Encrypt with the private key:</p>
       <code>RsaEncrypted = public_key:encrypt_private(Msg, PrivateKey),
Msg = public_key:decrypt_public(RsaEncrypted, PublicKey),</code>

       <p>Encrypt with the public key:</p>
       <code>RsaEncrypted = public_key:encrypt_public(Msg, PublicKey),
Msg = public_key:decrypt_private(RsaEncrypted, PrivateKey),</code>

      <note><p>You normally do only one of the encrypt or decrypt operations, 
      and the peer does the other. This normaly used in legacy applications
      as a primitive digital signature.
      </p></note>

  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Digital Signatures</title>

    <p>Suppose you have the following private key and a corresponding public key:</p>
    
    <list type="bulleted">
       <item><c>PrivateKey = #'RSAPrivateKey{}'</c> or
       <c>#'DSAPrivateKey'{}</c> and the plaintext <c>Msg = binary()</c></item>
       <item><c>PublicKey = #'RSAPublicKey'{}</c> or
       <c>{integer(), #'DssParams'{}}</c></item>
     </list>
     <p>Then you can proceed as follows:</p>

    <code>Signature = public_key:sign(Msg, sha, PrivateKey),
true = public_key:verify(Msg, sha, Signature, PublicKey),</code>

    <note><p>You normally do only one of the sign or verify operations,
    and the peer does the other.</p></note>

    <p>It can be appropriate to calculate the message digest before
    calling <c>sign</c> or <c>verify</c>, and then use <c>none</c> as 
    second argument:</p>

    <code>Digest = crypto:sha(Msg),
Signature = public_key:sign(Digest, none, PrivateKey),
true = public_key:verify(Digest, none, Signature, PublicKey),</code>
    
  </section>
  
  <section>
    <title>SSH Files</title>
    
    <p>SSH typically uses PEM files for private keys but has its
    own file format for storing public keys. The <c>public_key</c>
    application can be used to parse the content of SSH public-key files.</p>

    <section>
   <title>RFC 4716 SSH Public-Key Files</title>

    <p>RFC 4716 SSH files looks confusingly like PEM files,
       but there are some differences:</p>
      <code>1> {ok, SshBin} = file:read_file("ssh2_rsa_pub").
{ok, &lt;&lt;"---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----\nAAAA"...&gt;&gt;}</code>

    <p>This is equivalent to calling <c>public_key:ssh_decode(SshBin, rfc4716_public_key)</c>:
    </p>
      <code>2> public_key:ssh_decode(SshBin, public_key).
[{#'RSAPublicKey'{modulus = 794430685...91663,
                  publicExponent = 35}, []}]</code>

 </section>

 <section>
   <title>OpenSSH Public-Key Format</title>
   <p>OpenSSH public-key format looks as follows:</p>
      <code>1> {ok, SshBin} = file:read_file("openssh_dsa_pub").
{ok,&lt;&lt;"ssh-dss AAAAB3Nza"...&gt;&gt;}</code>

    <p>This is equivalent to calling <c>public_key:ssh_decode(SshBin, openssh_public_key)</c>:
    </p>
    <code>2>  public_key:ssh_decode(SshBin, public_key).
[{{15642692...694280725,
   #'Dss-Parms'{p = 17291273936...696123221,
                q = 1255626590179665817295475654204371833735706001853,
                g = 10454211196...480338645}},
  [{comment,"dhopson@VMUbuntu-DSH"}]}]</code>
 </section>

 <section>
   <title>Known Hosts - OpenSSH Format</title>
   <p>Known hosts - OpenSSH format looks as follows:</p>
      <code>1> {ok, SshBin} = file:read_file("known_hosts").
{ok,&lt;&lt;"hostname.domain.com,192.168.0.1 ssh-rsa AAAAB...&gt;&gt;}</code>

    <p>Returns a list of public keys and their related attributes.
    Each pair of key and attribute corresponds to one entry in
    the known hosts file:</p>
    
    <code>2>  public_key:ssh_decode(SshBin, known_hosts).
[{#'RSAPublicKey'{modulus = 1498979460408...72721699,
                  publicExponent = 35},
  [{hostnames,["hostname.domain.com","192.168.0.1"]}]},
 {#'RSAPublicKey'{modulus = 14989794604088...2721699,
                  publicExponent = 35},
  [{comment,"[email protected]"},
   {hostnames,["|1|BWO5qDxk/cFH0wa05JLdHn+j6xQ=|rXQvIxh5cDD3C43k5DPDamawVNA="]}]}]</code>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Authorized Keys - OpenSSH Format</title>
    <p>Authorized keys - OpenSSH format looks as follows:</p>

    <code>1> {ok, SshBin} = file:read_file("auth_keys").
{ok, &lt;&lt;"command=\"dump /home\",no-pty,no-port-forwarding ssh-rsa AAA...&gt;&gt;}</code>

    <p>Returns a list of public keys and their related attributes.
    Each pair of key and attribute corresponds to one entry in
    the authorized key file:</p>

    <code>2> public_key:ssh_decode(SshBin, auth_keys).
[{#'RSAPublicKey'{modulus = 794430685...691663,
                  publicExponent = 35},
  [{comment,"dhopson@VMUbuntu-DSH"},
   {options,["command=\"dump/home\"","no-pty",
             "no-port-forwarding"]}]},
 {{1564269258491...607694280725,
   #'Dss-Parms'{p = 17291273936185...763696123221,
                q = 1255626590179665817295475654204371833735706001853,
                g = 10454211195705...60511039590076780999046480338645}},
  [{comment,"dhopson@VMUbuntu-DSH"}]}]</code>
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>Creating an SSH File from Public-Key Data</title>

      <p>If you got a public key <c>PubKey</c> and a related list of
      attributes <c>Attributes</c> as returned
      by <c>ssh_decode/2</c>, you can create a new SSH file, for example:</p>
      <code>N> SshBin = public_key:ssh_encode([{PubKey, Attributes}], openssh_public_key),
&lt;&lt;"ssh-rsa "...&gt;&gt;
N+1> file:write_file("id_rsa.pub", SshBin).
ok</code>
    </section>
  </section>
</chapter>