Introduction

## 1 Introduction

### 1.1 Purpose

This application provides an API to public key infrastructure from RFC 3280 (X.509 certificates) and public key formats defined by the PKCS-standard.

### 1.2 Prerequisites

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language, concepts of OTP and has a basic understanding of the consepts of using public keys.

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