| Paul Bakker | 37ca75d | 2011-01-06 12:28:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | /** |
| 2 | * @file |
| 3 | * X.509 module documentation file. |
| 4 | */ |
| 5 | |
| 6 | /** |
| 7 | * @addtogroup x509_module X.509 module |
| Paul Bakker | dcbfdcc | 2013-09-10 16:16:50 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | * |
| Paul Bakker | 37ca75d | 2011-01-06 12:28:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | * The X.509 module provides X.509 support which includes: |
| 10 | * - X.509 certificate (CRT) reading (see \c x509parse_crt() and |
| 11 | * \c x509parse_crtfile()). |
| 12 | * - X.509 certificate revocation list (CRL) reading (see \c x509parse_crl() |
| 13 | * and\c x509parse_crlfile()). |
| Paul Bakker | dcbfdcc | 2013-09-10 16:16:50 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | * - X.509 (RSA and ECC) private key reading (see \c x509parse_key() and |
| 15 | * \c x509parse_keyfile()). |
| Paul Bakker | 37ca75d | 2011-01-06 12:28:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | * - X.509 certificate signature verification (see \c x509parse_verify()) |
| Paul Bakker | dcbfdcc | 2013-09-10 16:16:50 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | * - X.509 certificate writing and certificate request writing (see |
| Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard | 151dc77 | 2015-05-14 13:55:51 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | * \c mbedtls_x509write_crt_der() and \c mbedtls_x509write_csr_der()). |
| Paul Bakker | 37ca75d | 2011-01-06 12:28:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | * |
| 20 | * This module can be used to build a certificate authority (CA) chain and |
| Paul Bakker | dcbfdcc | 2013-09-10 16:16:50 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | * verify its signature. It is also used to generate Certificate Signing |
| 22 | * Requests and X509 certificates just as a CA would do. |
| Paul Bakker | 37ca75d | 2011-01-06 12:28:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | */ |
