1crypto(7) Erlang Application Definition crypto(7)
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6 crypto - The Crypto Application
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9 The purpose of the Crypto application is to provide an Erlang API to
10 cryptographic functions, see crypto(3). Note that the API is on a
11 fairly low level and there are some corresponding API functions avail‐
12 able in public_key(3), on a higher abstraction level, that uses the
13 crypto application in its implementation.
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16 The current crypto implementation uses nifs to interface OpenSSLs
17 crypto library and may work with limited functionality with as old ver‐
18 sions as OpenSSL 0.9.8c. FIPS mode support requires at least version
19 1.0.1 and a FIPS capable OpenSSL installation. We recommend using a
20 version that is officially supported by the OpenSSL project. API com‐
21 patible backends like LibreSSL should also work.
22 Source releases of OpenSSL can be downloaded from the OpenSSL project
24 home page, or mirror sites listed there.
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27 The following configuration parameters are defined for the crypto
28 application. See app(3) for more information about configuration param‐
29 eters.
30 fips_mode = boolean():
32 Specifies whether to run crypto in FIPS mode. This setting will
33 take effect when the nif module is loaded. If FIPS mode is
34 requested but not available at run time the nif module and thus the
35 crypto module will fail to load. This mechanism prevents the acci‐
36 dental use of non-validated algorithms.
37 rand_cache_size = integer():
39 Sets the cache size in bytes to use by
40 crypto:rand_seed_alg(crypto_cache) and
41 crypto:rand_seed_alg_s(crypto_cache). This parameter is read when a
42 seed function is called, and then kept in generators state object.
43 It has a rather small default value that causes reads of strong
44 random bytes about once per hundred calls for a random value. The
45 set value is rounded up to an integral number of words of the size
46 these seed functions use.
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49 application(3)
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