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NAME
crypto - The Crypto Application
DESCRIPTION
The purpose of the Crypto application is to provide an Erlang API to cryptographic functions, see
crypto(3erl). Note that the API is on a fairly low level and there are some corresponding API functions
available in public_key(3erl), on a higher abstraction level, that uses the crypto application in its
implementation.
DEPENDENCIES
The current crypto implementation uses nifs to interface OpenSSLs crypto library and requires OpenSSL
package version 0.9.8 or higher.
Source releases of OpenSSL can be downloaded from the OpenSSL project home page, or mirror sites listed
there.
SEE ALSO
application(3erl)