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    <title>Using SSL application API</title>
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  <p>To see relevant version information for ssl, call
  <seealso marker="ssl:ssl#versions-0"><c>ssl:versions/0</c></seealso>
  .</p>
    
  <p>To see all supported cipher suites, call  <seealso marker="ssl:ssl#cipher_suites-1"><c>ssl:cipher_suites(all)</c> </seealso>. 
  The available cipher suites for a connection depend on your certificate. 
  Specific cipher suites that you want your connection to use can also be 
  specified. Default is to use the strongest available.</p>
  
  <section>
    <title>Setting up Connections</title>
    
    <p>This section shows a small example of how to set up client/server connections
    using the Erlang shell. The returned value of the <c>sslsocket</c> is abbreviated
    with <c>[...]</c> as it can be fairly large and is opaque.</p>
    
    <section>
      <title>Minimal Example</title>
      
      <note><p> The minimal setup is not the most secure setup of SSL/TLS/DTLS.</p>    
      </note>

      <p>To set up client/server connections:</p>

      <p><em>Step 1:</em> Start the server side:</p>
      <code type="erl">1 server> ssl:start().
ok</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 2:</em> Create an TLS listen socket: (To run DTLS add the option {protocol, dtls})</p>
      <code type="erl">2 server> {ok, ListenSocket} =
ssl:listen(9999, [{certfile, "cert.pem"}, {keyfile, "key.pem"},{reuseaddr, true}]).
{ok,{sslsocket, [...]}}</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 3:</em> Do a transport accept on the TLS listen socket:</p>
      <code type="erl">3 server> {ok, TLSTransportSocket} = ssl:transport_accept(ListenSocket).
{ok,{sslsocket, [...]}}</code>

      <p><em>Step 4:</em> Start the client side: </p>
      <code type="erl">1 client> ssl:start().
ok</code>
      <p> To run DTLS add the option {protocol, dtls} to third argument.</p>
      <code type="erl">2 client> {ok, Socket} = ssl:connect("localhost", 9999,  [], infinity).
{ok,{sslsocket, [...]}}</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 5:</em> Do the TLS handshake:</p>
      <code type="erl">4 server> {ok, Socket} = ssl:handshake(TLSTransportSocket).
ok</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 6:</em> Send a message over TLS:</p>
      <code type="erl">5 server> ssl:send(Socket, "foo").
ok</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 7:</em> Flush the shell message queue to see that the message
      was sent on the server side:</p>
      <code type="erl">3 client> flush().
Shell got {ssl,{sslsocket,[...]},"foo"}
ok</code>
    </section>
    
    <section>
      <title>Upgrade Example - TLS only </title>
      
      <note><p>To upgrade a TCP/IP connection to an SSL connection, the
      client and server must agree to do so. The agreement
      can be accomplished by using a protocol, for example, the one used by HTTP
      specified in RFC 2817.</p></note>

      <p>To upgrade to an SSL connection:</p>
      
      <p><em>Step 1:</em> Start the server side:</p>
      <code type="erl">1 server> ssl:start().
ok</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 2:</em> Create a normal TCP listen socket:</p>
      <code type="erl">2 server> {ok, ListenSocket} = gen_tcp:listen(9999, [{reuseaddr, true}]).
{ok, #Port&lt;0.475&gt;}</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 3:</em> Accept client connection:</p>
      <code type="erl">3 server> {ok, Socket} = gen_tcp:accept(ListenSocket).
{ok, #Port&lt;0.476&gt;}</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 4:</em> Start the client side:</p>
      <code type="erl">1 client> ssl:start().
ok</code>
      
      <code type="erl">2 client> {ok, Socket} = gen_tcp:connect("localhost", 9999,  [], infinity).</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 5:</em> Ensure <c>active</c> is set to <c>false</c> before trying
      to upgrade a connection to an SSL connection, otherwise
      SSL handshake messages can be delivered to the wrong process:</p>
      <code type="erl">4 server> inet:setopts(Socket, [{active, false}]).
ok</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 6:</em> Do the TLS handshake:</p>
      <code type="erl">5 server> {ok, TLSSocket} = ssl:handshake(Socket, [{cacertfile, "cacerts.pem"},
{certfile, "cert.pem"}, {keyfile, "key.pem"}]).
{ok,{sslsocket,[...]}}</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 7:</em> Upgrade to an TLS connection. The client and server
      must agree upon the upgrade. The server must call
      <c>ssl:accept/2</c> before the client calls <c>ssl:connect/3.</c></p>
      <code type="erl">3 client>{ok, TLSSocket} = ssl:connect(Socket, [{cacertfile, "cacerts.pem"},
{certfile, "cert.pem"}, {keyfile, "key.pem"}], infinity).
{ok,{sslsocket,[...]}}</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 8:</em> Send a message over TLS:</p>
      <code type="erl">4 client> ssl:send(TLSSocket, "foo").
ok</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 9:</em> Set <c>active true</c> on the TLS socket:</p>
      <code type="erl">4 server> ssl:setopts(TLSSocket, [{active, true}]).
ok</code>
      
      <p><em>Step 10:</em> Flush the shell message queue to see that the message
      was sent on the client side:</p>
      <code type="erl">5 server> flush().
Shell got {ssl,{sslsocket,[...]},"foo"}
ok</code>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Customizing cipher suits</title>

    <p>Fetch default cipher suite list for an TLS/DTLS version. Change default
    to all to get all possible cipher suites.</p>
    <code type="erl">1>  Default = ssl:cipher_suites(default, 'tlsv1.2').
    [#{cipher => aes_256_gcm,key_exchange => ecdhe_ecdsa,
    mac => aead,prf => sha384}, ....]
</code>

    <p>In OTP 20 it is desirable to remove all cipher suites
    that uses rsa kexchange (removed from default in 21) </p>
    <code type="erl">2> NoRSA =
    ssl:filter_cipher_suites(Default,
                            [{key_exchange, fun(rsa) -> false;
			                       (_) -> true end}]).
    [...]
    </code>

    <p> Pick just a few suites </p>
    <code type="erl"> 3> Suites =
    ssl:filter_cipher_suites(Default,
                            [{key_exchange, fun(ecdh_ecdsa) -> true;
			                       (_) -> false end},
                             {cipher, fun(aes_128_cbc) ->true;
			                  (_) ->false end}]).
    [#{cipher => aes_128_cbc,key_exchange => ecdh_ecdsa,
     mac => sha256,prf => sha256},
     #{cipher => aes_128_cbc,key_exchange => ecdh_ecdsa,mac => sha,
     prf => default_prf}]
    </code>
    
    <p> Make some particular suites the most preferred, or least
    preferred by changing prepend to append.</p>
    <code type="erl"> 4>ssl:prepend_cipher_suites(Suites, Default).
  [#{cipher => aes_128_cbc,key_exchange => ecdh_ecdsa,
     mac => sha256,prf => sha256},
   #{cipher => aes_128_cbc,key_exchange => ecdh_ecdsa,mac => sha,
     prf => default_prf},
   #{cipher => aes_256_cbc,key_exchange => ecdhe_ecdsa,
     mac => sha384,prf => sha384}, ...]
    </code>
  </section>      

  <section>
    <title>Using an Engine Stored Key</title>
    
    <p>Erlang ssl application is able to use private keys provided
    by OpenSSL engines using the following mechanism:</p>
    
    <code type="erl">1> ssl:start().
ok</code>

    <p>Load a crypto engine, should be done once per engine used. For example
    dynamically load the engine called <c>MyEngine</c>:
    </p>
    <code type="erl">2> {ok, EngineRef} =
crypto:engine_load(&lt;&lt;"dynamic">>,
                   [{&lt;&lt;"SO_PATH">>, "/tmp/user/engines/MyEngine"},&lt;&lt;"LOAD">>],[]).
{ok,#Ref&lt;0.2399045421.3028942852.173962>}
    </code>
    
    <p>Create a map with the engine information and the algorithm used by the engine:</p>
    <code type="erl">3> PrivKey =
 #{algorithm => rsa,
   engine => EngineRef,
   key_id => "id of the private key in Engine"}.
    </code>
    <p>Use the map in the ssl key option:</p>
    <code type="erl">4> {ok, SSLSocket} =
ssl:connect("localhost", 9999,
            [{cacertfile, "cacerts.pem"},
             {certfile, "cert.pem"},
             {key, PrivKey}], infinity).
    </code>

    <p>See also <seealso marker="crypto:engine_load#engine_load"> crypto documentation</seealso> </p>
    
     </section>      
  
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