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authorLars Thorsen <[email protected]>2015-12-10 09:40:34 +0100
committerLars Thorsen <[email protected]>2015-12-11 10:06:59 +0100
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[ssl] Moved description details to man(6) page
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@@ -31,37 +31,13 @@
<module>ssl</module>
<modulesummary>Interface Functions for Secure Socket Layer</modulesummary>
<description>
- <p>This module contains interface functions for the SSL.</p>
+ <p>
+ This module contains interface functions for the SSL/TLS protocol.
+ For detailed information about the supported standards see
+ <seealso marker="ssl_app">ssl(6)</seealso>.
+ </p>
</description>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL</title>
-
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>For application dependencies see <seealso marker="ssl_app"> ssl(6)</seealso> </item>
- <item>Supported SSL/TLS-versions are SSL-3.0, TLS-1.0,
- TLS-1.1, and TLS-1.2.</item>
- <item>For security reasons SSL-2.0 is not supported.</item>
- <item>For security reasons SSL-3.0 is no longer supported by default,
- but can be configured.</item>
- <item>Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman cipher suites are supported,
- but not Diffie Hellman Certificates cipher suites.</item>
- <item>Elliptic Curve cipher suites are supported if the Crypto
- application supports it and named curves are used.
- </item>
- <item>Export cipher suites are not supported as the
- U.S. lifted its export restrictions in early 2000.</item>
- <item>IDEA cipher suites are not supported as they have
- become deprecated by the latest TLS specification so it is not
- motivated to implement them.</item>
- <item>CRL validation is supported.</item>
- <item>Policy certificate extensions are not supported.</item>
- <item>'Server Name Indication' extension client side
- (RFC 6066, Section 3) is supported.</item>
- </list>
-
- </section>
-
+
<section>
<title>DATA TYPES</title>
<p>The following data types are used in the functions for SSL:</p>