Public_Key(Application)

NAME
Public_Key Application

DESCRIPTION

The Public Key application deals with public-key related file formats, digital signatures, and X-509 certificates. It handles validation of certificate paths and certificate revocation lists (CRLs) and other functions for handling of certificates, keys and CRLs. It is a library application that does not read or write files, it expects or returns file contents or partial file contents as binaries. Except for the functions public-key:cacerts_load/0, public-key:cacerts_load/1, and public-key:cacerts_get/0 that reads files.

  Supported PKIX functionality

    • Supports RFC 5280 - Internet X.509 Public-Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile. Certificate policies supported since OTP-26.2

    • Supports PKCS-1 - RSA Cryptography Standard

    • Supports DSS - Digital Signature Standard (DSA - Digital Signature Algorithm)

    • Supports PKCS-3 - Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Standard

    • Supports Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5652.txt) including Password-Based Encryption with original PKCS-5 support, but currently excluding offical support for most of section 10-12 (if proven useful, especially Attribute Certificates v2, it might be added later).

    • Supports PKCS-8 - Private-Key Information Syntax Standard

    • Supports PKCS-10 - Certification Request Syntax Standard

    • Supports PKIXCMP - Certificate Management Protocol

    • Supports PKIXCRMF - Certificate Request Message Format

  Dependencies

The public_key application uses the Crypto application to perform cryptographic operations and the ASN-1 application to handle PKIX-ASN-1 specifications, hence these applications must be loaded for the public_key application to work. In an embedded environment this means they must be started with application:start/[1,2] before the public_key application is started.

  Error Logger and Event Handlers

The public_key application is a library application and does not use the error logger. The functions will either succeed or fail with a runtime error.

  See Also

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