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   1 \chapter{Preface}
   2
   3 This document tries to demonstrate the \gnutls{} library API, the
   4 protocols and the technology involved. I believe that a basic
   5 understanding of the underlying protocols is important, before
   6 using \tls{}. This is because security and cryptographic
   7 protocols are involved, which require the application programmer
   8 to make correct use of these protocols, or no security is
   9 offered. Although this document tries to be self contained, basic
  10 network programming and PKI knowlegde is assumed in most of this document.
  11 I suggest \cite{GUTPKI} for an introduction to Public Key Infrastructure.