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<title>SSL Release Notes</title>
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<p>This document describes the changes made to the SSL application.</p>
<section><title>SSL 5.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Honor the versions option to ssl:connect and ssl:listen.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10905</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Next protocol negotiation with reused sessions will now
succeed</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10909</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Add support for PSK (Pre Shared Key) and SRP (Secure
Remote Password) chipher suits, thanks to Andreas
Schultz.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10450 Aux Id: kunagi-269 [180] </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fix SSL Next Protocol Negotiation documentation. Thanks
to Julien Barbot.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10955</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fix ssl_connection to support reading proxy/chain
certificates. Thanks to Valentin Kuznetsov.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10980</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Integrate elliptic curve contribution from Andreas
Schultz </p>
<p>
In order to be able to support elliptic curve cipher
suites in SSL/TLS, additions to handle elliptic curve
infrastructure has been added to public_key and crypto.</p>
<p>
This also has resulted in a rewrite of the crypto API to
gain consistency and remove unnecessary overhead. All OTP
applications using crypto has been updated to use the new
API.</p>
<p>
Impact: Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) offers
equivalent security with smaller key sizes than other
public key algorithms. Smaller key sizes result in
savings for power, memory, bandwidth, and computational
cost that make ECC especially attractive for constrained
environments.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11009</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 5.2.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Transport callback handling is changed so that gen_tcp is
treated as a special case where inet will be called
directly for functions such as setopts, as gen_tcp does
not have its own setopts. This will enable users to use
the transport callback for other customizations such as
websockets.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10847</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Follow up to OTP-10451 solved in ssl-5.2 R16A. Make sure
format_error return good strings. Replace confusing
legacy atoms with more descriptive atoms.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10864</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 5.1.2.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Make log_alert configurable as option in ssl, SSLLogLevel
added as option to inets conf file</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11259</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 5.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
SSL: TLS 1.2, advertise sha224 support, thanks to Andreas
Schultz.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10586</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
If an ssl server is restarted with new options and a
client tries to reuse a session the server must make sure
that it complies to the new options before agreeing to
reuse it.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10595</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Now handles cleaning of CA-certificate database correctly
so that there will be no memory leek, bug was introduced
in ssl- 5.1 when changing implementation to increase
parallel execution.</p>
<p>
Impact: Improved memory usage, especially if you have
many different certificates and upgrade tcp-connections
to TLS-connections.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10710</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Support Next Protocol Negotiation in TLS, thanks to Ben
Murphy for the contribution.</p>
<p>
Impact: Could give performance benefit if used as it
saves a round trip.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10361 Aux Id: kunagi-214 [125] </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
TLS 1.2 will now be the default TLS version if sufficient
crypto support is available otherwise TLS 1.1 will be
default.</p>
<p>
Impact: A default TLS connection will have higher
security and hence it may be perceived as slower then
before.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10425 Aux Id: kunagi-275 [186] </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
It is now possible to call controlling_process on a
listen socket, same as in gen_tcp.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10447</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Remove filter mechanisms that made error messages
backwards compatible with old ssl but hid information
about what actually happened.</p>
<p>
This does not break the documented API however other
reason terms may be returned, so code that matches on the
reason part of {error, Reason} may fail.</p>
<p>
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10451 Aux Id: kunagi-270 [181] </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Added missing dependencies to Makefile</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10594</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Removed deprecated function ssl:pid/0, it has been
pointless since R14 but has been keep for backwards
compatibility.</p>
<p>
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10613 Aux Id: kunagi-331 [242] </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Refactor to simplify addition of key exchange methods,
thanks to Andreas Schultz.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10709</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 5.1.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
ssl:ssl_accept/2 timeout is no longer ignored</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10600</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 5.1.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
ssl:recv/3 could "loose" data when the timeout occurs. If
the timout in ssl:connect or ssl:ssl_accept expired the
ssl connection process was not terminated as it should,
this due to gen_fsm:send_all_state_event timout is a
client side time out. These timouts are now handled by
the gen_fsm-procss instead.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10569</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Better termination handling that avoids hanging.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10574</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 5.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Sometimes the client process could receive an extra
{error, closed} message after ssl:recv had returned
{error, closed}.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10118</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
ssl v3 alert number 41 (no_certificate_RESERVED) is now
recognized</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10196</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Experimental support for TLS 1.1 is now available, will
be officially supported from OTP-R16. Thanks to Andreas
Schultz for implementing the first version.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8871</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Experimental support for TLS 1.2 is now available, will
be officially supported from OTP-R16. Thanks to Andreas
Schultz for implementing the first version.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8872</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Removed some bottlenecks increasing the applications
parallelism especially for the client side.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10113</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Workaround for handling certificates that wrongly encode
X509countryname in utf-8 when the actual value is a valid
ASCCI value of length 2. Such certificates are accepted
by many browsers such as Chrome and Fierfox so for
interoperability reasons we will too.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10222</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 5.0.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Robustness and improvement to distribution over SSL</p>
<p>
Fix a bug where ssl_tls_dist_proxy would crash at caller
timeout. Fix a bug where a timeout from the SSL layer
would block the distribution indefinately. Run the proxy
exclusively on the loopback interface. (Thanks to Paul
Guyot)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9915</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fix setup loop of SSL TLS dist proxy</p>
<p>
Fix potential leak of processes waiting indefinately for
data from closed sockets during socket setup phase.
(Thanks to Paul Guyot)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9916</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Correct spelling of registered (Thanks to Richard
Carlsson)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9925</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Added TLS PRF function to the SSL API for generation of
additional key material from a TLS session. (Thanks to
Andreas Schultz)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10024</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 5.0</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Invalidation handling of sessions could cause the
time_stamp field in the session record to be set to
undefined crashing the session clean up process. This did
not affect the connections but would result in that the
session table would grow.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9696 Aux Id: seq11947 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Changed code to use ets:foldl and throw instead of
ets:next traversal, avoiding the need to explicitly call
ets:safe_fixtable. It was possible to get a badarg-crash
under special circumstances.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9703 Aux Id: seq11947 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Send ssl_closed notification to active ssl user when a
tcp error occurs.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9734 Aux Id: seq11946 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
If a passive receive was ongoing during a renegotiation
the process evaluating ssl:recv could be left hanging for
ever.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9744</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Support for the old ssl implementation is dropped and the
code is removed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7048</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
The erlang distribution can now be run over the new ssl
implementation. All options can currently not be set but
it is enough to replace to old ssl implementation.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7053</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
public_key, ssl and crypto now supports PKCS-8</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9312</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Implements a CBC timing attack counter measure. Thanks to
Andreas Schultz for providing the patch.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9683</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Mitigates an SSL/TLS Computational DoS attack by
disallowing the client to renegotiate many times in a row
in a short time interval, thanks to Tuncer Ayaz for
alerting us about this.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9739</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Implements the 1/n-1 splitting countermeasure to the
Rizzo Duong BEAST attack, affects SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0.
Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz for alerting us about this.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9750</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 4.1.6</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
replace "a ssl" with "an ssl" reindent
pkix_path_validation/3 Trivial documentation fixes
(Thanks to Christian von Roques )</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9464</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Adds function clause to avoid denial of service attack.
Thanks to Vinod for reporting this vulnerability.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9364</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Error handling code now takes care of inet:getopts/2 and
inets:setopts/2 crashes. Thanks to Richard Jones for
reporting this.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9382</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Support explicit use of packet option httph and httph_bin</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9461</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Decoding of hello extensions could fail to come to the
correct conclusion due to an error in a binary match
pattern. Thanks to Ben Murphy.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9589</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>SSL 4.1.5</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Calling gen_tcp:connect with option {ip, {127,0,0,1}} results in
an exit with reason badarg. Neither SSL nor INETS This was not
catched, resulting in crashes with incomprehensible reasons.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-9289 Aux Id: seq11845</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>SSL 4.1.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fixed error in cache-handling fix from ssl-4.1.2</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9018 Aux Id: seq11739 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Verification of a critical extended_key_usage-extension
corrected</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-9029 Aux Id: seq11541 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>SSL 4.1.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The ssl application caches certificate files, it will now
invalidate cache entries if the diskfile is changed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8965 Aux Id: seq11739 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Now runs the terminate function before returning from the
call made by ssl:close/1, as before the caller of
ssl:close/1 could get problems with the reuseaddr option.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8992</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 4.1.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Correct handling of client certificate verify message
When checking the client certificate verify message the
server used the wrong algorithm identifier to determine
the signing algorithm, causing a function clause error in
the public_key application when the key-exchange
algorithm and the public key algorithm of the client
certificate happen to differ.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8897</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
For testing purposes ssl now also support some anonymous
cipher suites when explicitly configured to do so.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8870</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Sends an error alert instead of crashing if a crypto
function for the selected cipher suite fails.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8930 Aux Id: seq11720 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 4.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Updated ssl to ignore CA certs that violate the asn1-spec
for a certificate, and updated public key asn1 spec to
handle inherited DSS-params.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7884</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Changed ssl implementation to retain backwards
compatibility for old option {verify, 0} that shall be
equivalent to {verify, verify_none}, also separate the
cases unknown ca and selfsigned peer cert, and restored
return value of deprecated function
public_key:pem_to_der/1.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8858</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Changed the verify fun so that it differentiate between
the peer certificate and CA certificates by using
valid_peer or valid as the second argument to the verify
fun. It may not always be trivial or even possible to
know when the peer certificate is reached otherwise.</p>
<p>
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8873</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 4.0.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The server now verifies the client certificate verify
message correctly, instead of causing a case-clause.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8721</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
The client hello message now always include ALL available
cipher suites (or those specified by the ciphers option).
Previous implementation would filter them based on the
client certificate key usage extension (such filtering
only makes sense for the server certificate).</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8772</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fixed handling of the option {mode, list} that was broken
for some packet types for instance line.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8785</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Empty packets were not delivered to the client.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8790</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Building in a source tree without prebuilt platform
independent build results failed on the SSL examples
when: </p> <list><item> cross building. This has been
solved by not building the SSL examples during a cross
build. </item><item> building on Windows. </item></list>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8791</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Fixed a handshake error which occurred on some ssl
implementations.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8793</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Revise the public_key API - Cleaned up and documented the
public_key API to make it useful for general use, also
changed ssl to use the new API.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8722</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Added support for inputing certificates and keys directly
in DER format these options will override the pem-file
options if specified.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8723</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
To gain interoperability ssl will not check for padding
errors when using TLS 1.0. It is first in TLS 1.1 that
checking the padding is an requirement.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8740</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Changed the semantics of the verify_fun option in the
ssl-application so that it takes care of both application
handling of path validation errors and verification of
application specific extensions. This means that it is
now possible for the server application in verify_peer
mode to handle path validation errors. This change moved
some functionality earlier in ssl to the public_key
application.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8770</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Added the functionality so that the verification fun will
be called when a certificate is considered valid by the
path validation to allow access to each certificate in
the path to the user application. Also try to verify
subject-AltName, if unable to verify it let the
application verify it.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8825</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>SSL 4.0</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
New ssl now support client/server-certificates signed by
dsa keys.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8587</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Ssl has now switched default implementation and removed
deprecated certificate handling. All certificate handling
is done by the public_key application.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8695</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
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