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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1999</year><year>2012</year>
+ <year>1999</year><year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -22,10 +22,6 @@
</legalnotice>
<title>SSL Release Notes</title>
- <prepared>Peter H&ouml;gfeldt</prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date>2003-08-03</date>
- <rev>G</rev>
<file>notes.xml</file>
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the SSL application.</p>
@@ -605,1285 +601,7 @@
</item>
</list>
</section>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>SSL 3.11.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Fixed handling of several ssl/tls packets arriving at the
- same time. This was broken during a refactoring of the
- code.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8679</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Added missing checks for padding and Mac value. Removed
- code for export ciphers and DH certificates as we decided
- not to support them.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7047</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- New ssl will no longer return esslerrssl to be backwards
- compatible with old ssl as this hids infomation from the
- user. format_error/1 has been updated to support new ssl.</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7049</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- New ssl now supports secure renegotiation as described by
- RFC 5746.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8568</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Alert handling has been improved to better handle
- unexpected but valid messages and the implementation is
- also changed to avoid timing related issues that could
- cause different error messages depending on network
- latency. Packet handling was sort of broken but would
- mostly work as expected when socket was in binary mode.
- This has now been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8588</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>SSL 3.11</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Fixes handling of the option fail_if_no_peer_cert and
- some undocumented options. Thanks to Rory Byrne.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8557</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Support for Diffie-Hellman. ssl-3.11 requires
- public_key-0.6.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7046</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- New ssl now properly handles ssl renegotiation, and
- initiates a renegotiation if ssl/ltls-sequence numbers
- comes close to the max value. However RFC-5746 is not yet
- supported, but will be in an upcoming release.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8517</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- When gen_tcp is configured with the {packet,http} option,
- it automatically switches to expect HTTP Headers after a
- HTTP Request/Response line has been received. This update
- fixes ssl to behave in the same way. Thanks to Rory
- Byrne.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8545</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Ssl now correctly verifies the extended_key_usage
- extension and also allows the user to verify application
- specific extensions by supplying an appropriate fun.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8554 Aux Id: OTP-8553 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Fixed ssl:transport_accept/2 to return properly when
- socket is closed. Thanks to Rory Byrne.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8560</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>SSL 3.10.9</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Fixed a crash in the certificate certification part.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8510 Aux Id: seq11525 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>SSL 3.10.8</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p><c>ssl:send/2</c> ignored packet option, fix provided
- by YAMASHINA Hio.</p>
- <p>Fixed a file cache bug which caused problems when the
- same file was used for both cert and cacert.</p>
- <p>Allow <c>ssl:listen/2</c> to be called with option
- {ssl_imp, old}.</p>
- <p> Fixed ssl:setopts(Socket, binary) which didn't work
- for 'new' ssl.</p>.
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8441</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Do a controlled shutdown if a non ssl packet arrives as
- the first packet.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8459 Aux Id: seq11505 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>Fixed session reuse (in new_ssl), thanks Wil Tan.</p>
- <p>Send CA list during Certificate Request (in new_ssl) ,
- thanks Wil Tan.</p> <p><c>NOTE</c>: SSL (new_ssl)
- requires public_key-0.5.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8372</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>SSL 3.10.7</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- A ticker process could potentially be blocked
- indefinitely trying to send a tick to a node not
- responding. If this happened, the connection would not be
- brought down as it should.</p>
- <p> This requires erts-5.7.4 and kernel-2.13.4 or later
- to be able to get the erlang distribution over ssl to work.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8218</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The documentation is now built with open source tools
- (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One
- visible change is that the frames are removed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8250</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Code cleanup from Kostis.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8260</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>SSL 3.10.6</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The ssl:ssl_accept/3 issue was not properly fixed in the
- previous patch, see OTP-8244.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8275 Aux Id: seq11451 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>SSL 3.10.5</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Allow clients to not send certificates if option
- <c>fail_if_no_peer_cert</c> was not set.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8224</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>An ssl:ssl_accept/3 could crash a connection if the
- timing was wrong.</p> <p>Removed info message if the
- socket closed without a proper disconnect from the ssl
- layer. </p> <p>ssl:send/2 is now blocking until the
- message is sent.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8244 Aux Id: seq11420 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>SSL 3.10.4</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- A client could avoid a certificate check if the client
- code didn't send the requested certificate.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8137</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>SSL 3.10.3</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>Packet handling was not implemented correctly.</p>
- <p>Inet option handling support have been improved.</p>
- <p>The <c>verify_fun</c> is now invoked even if
- verify_peer is used, that implies that by default
- {bad_cert,unknown_ca} is an accepted fault during the
- client connection phase. The check can still be done by
- suppling another verify_fun.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8011 Aux Id: seq11287 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-
-<section><title>SSL 3.10.2</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- A "new_ssl" socket was not closed if the controlling
- process died without calling ssl:close/1.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7963 Aux Id: seq11276 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
</section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>SSL 3.10.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Fixed bug that caused the ssl handshake finished message
- to be calculated wrongly under the circumstances that the
- server did not send the trusted cert and that the
- previous cert did not have the extension telling us the
- trusted certs name. This manifested it self as
- bad_record_mac alert from the server.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7878</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The cacertsfile option is now optional for ssl servers.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7656</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- For the ssl client the options cacertfile, certfile and
- keyfile are now optional as they are not always needed
- depending on configuration of the client itself and the
- configuration of the server. Also as PEM-files may
- contain more than one entry the keyfile option will
- default to the same file as given by the certfile option.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7870</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Added new ssl client option verify_fun.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7871</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
- <section><title>SSL 3.10</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Error log entries are now formatted correctly.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7258</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- All handling of X509-certificates and public keys have
- been moved to the new application public_key.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-6894</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- New ssl now supports SSL-3.0 and TLS-1.0</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7037</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- New ssl now supports all inet-packet types.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7039</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- The new ssl-server is now able to send a certificate
- request to the client. However new options may be
- introduced later to fully support all features regarding
- certificate requests.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7150</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Running erlang distribution over ssl don't work as
- described in the documentation.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7536</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>SSL 3.9</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- ssl_prim.erl was passing an FD rather than an #sslsocket
- to ssl_broker:ssl_accept_prim. This could cause problems
- in the deprecated accept function, this will not cause
- any more problems however this function is deprecated!</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-6926</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Erlang distribution over ssl was broken after R11B-0,
- this has now been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7004</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- All inet options are available in the new ssl
- implementation that is released as a alfa in ssl-3.9 and
- will replace the old implementation in ssl-4.0. This will
- not be fixed in the old implementation.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-4677</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- The new ssl implementation released as a alfa in this
- version supports upgrading of a tcp connection to an ssl
- connection so that http client and servers may implement
- RFC 2817.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-5510</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>A new implementation of ssl is released as a alfa
- version in ssl-3.9 it will later replace the old
- implementation in ssl-4.0. The new implementation can be
- accessed by providing the option {ssl_imp, new} to the
- ssl:connect and ssl:listen functions.</p>
- <p>The new implementation is Erlang based and all logic
- is in Erlang and only payload encryption calculations are
- done in C via the crypto application. The main reason for
- making a new implementation is that the old solution was
- very crippled as the control of the ssl-socket was deep
- down in openssl making it hard if not impossible to
- support all inet options, ipv6 and upgrade of a tcp
- connection to an ssl connection. The alfa version has a
- few limitations that will be removed before the ssl-4.0
- release. Main differences and limitations in the alfa are
- listed below.</p>
-
- <list type="bulleted"> <item>New ssl requires the crypto
- application.</item> <item>The option reuseaddr is
- supported and the default value is false as in gen_tcp.
- Old ssl is patched to accept that the option is set to
- true to provide a smoother migration between the
- versions. In old ssl the option is hard coded to
- true.</item> <item>ssl:version/0 is replaced by
- ssl:versions/0</item> <item>ssl:ciphers/0 is replaced by
- ssl:cipher_suites/0</item> <item>ssl:pid/1 is a
- meaningless function in new ssl and will be deprecated in
- ssl-4.0 until it is removed it will return a valid but
- meaningless pid.</item> <item>New API functions are
- ssl:shutdown/2, ssl:cipher_suites/[0,1] and
- ssl:versions/0</item> <item>Diffie-Hellman keyexchange is
- not supported.</item> <item>Not all inet packet types are
- supported.</item> <item>CRL and policy certificate
- extensions are not supported.</item> <item>In this alfa
- only sslv3 is enabled, although tlsv1 and tlsv1.1
- versions are implemented and will be supported in future
- versions.</item> <item>For security reasons sslv2 is not
- supported.</item> </list>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-6619</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- New ssl implementation, released as alfa in ssl-3.9,
- supports ipv6. It will not be supported in the old
- implementation.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-6637 Aux Id: OTP-6636 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 3.1.1.1</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Minor Makefile changes</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Removed use of <c>erl_flags</c> from Makefile.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6689</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 3.1.1</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Crash on error in ssl_accept</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>A bug in ssl_accept could cause all ssl
- connections to hang when a connection
- attempt was closed by the client while
- the server was in <c>ssl_accept</c>.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6612 Aux Id: seq10599</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 3.1</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>SSL now uses a two-phase accept, with a separate accept
- calls for the socket and the ssl protocol. This avoids
- timeouts when a client doesn't initiate ssl handshake.</p>
- <p>With the old implementation of accept, the server
- was locked by a client, if the client didn't do
- proper ssl handshake.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6418 Aux Id: seq10105</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 3.0.12</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>An integer array pointing to a struct pollfd array, is
- now reset before file descriptors are collected to be
- included in a call to poll(). This is to prevent file
- descriptors to be mixed up.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6084</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The generation of the module ssl_pkix_oid contained
- multiple identifiers, which made the mapping between
- atoms and identifiers not one-to-one.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6085</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 3.0.11</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The state of a connection in active mode could be in a
- restrictive state, so that an internal tcp_closed message
- was incorrectly considered illegal, resulting in a
- premature termination of the connection process.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5972 Aux Id: seq10188 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 3.0.10</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Erlang distribution over SSL was broken. Corrected.
- (Thanks to Fredrik Thulin.)</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5863</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 3.0.9</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The port program for the ssl application could waste huge
- amounts of CPU time if a write could not be completed
- directly and was put in the write queue. (Only on platforms
- where poll() is used, such as Solaris and Linux.)</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5784</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 3.0.8</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>A process reading only a portion of a sufficiently large
- amount of data from an accepted socket, and then quering
- the ssl library (e.g. ssl:getpeername()), would cause a
- global deadlock in the esock port program.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5702</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>A spelling error in the module <c>ssl_pkix</c> caused the
- call to <c>ssl:peercert/2</c> to fail when the option
- <c>subject</c> was used.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5708</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Because fopen() on Solaris 8 can't handle file
- descriptor numbers above 255, reading of certificate
- files would fail if all file descriptors below 256 were
- in use (typically, if many connections were open). This
- problem has been worked around.</p>
- <p>The ssl application's port program used to use
- select(), which meant that it could not handle more than
- FD_SETSIZE file descriptors (usually 1024). To eliminate
- that limitation, poll() is now used on all platforms that
- support it.</p>
- <p>Solaris/Sparc, 64-bit emulator: The SO_REUSEADDR
- option was not set for listen sockets, which essentially
- made the ssl application unusable. Corrected.</p>
- <p>The default listen queue size for ssl port program was
- changed to 128 (from 5).</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5755 Aux Id: seq10068 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Ssl 3.0.7</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The R/W buffer length i esock.c was too small. It has
- been increased from 4k to 32k.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5620</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Ssl 3.0.6</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>A configuration option for choosing protocol versions has
- been added (<c>sslv2</c>, <c>sslv3</c>, and
- <c>tlsv1</c>).</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5429 Aux Id: seq9755 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Ssl 3.0.5</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Linked in drivers in the crypto, and asn1 applications
- are now compiled with the -D_THREAD_SAFE and -D_REENTRANT
- switches on unix when the emulator has thread support
- enabled.</p>
- <p>Linked in drivers on MacOSX are not compiled with the
- undocumented -lbundle1.o switch anymore. Thanks to Sean
- Hinde who sent us a patch.</p>
- <p>Linked in driver in crypto, and port programs in ssl, now
- compiles on OSF1.</p>
- <p>Minor makefile improvements in runtime_tools.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5346</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Ssl 3.0.4</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p><c>ssl:recv/3</c> with finite timeout value, closed the
- connection at timeout.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-4882</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Ssl 3.0.3</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>When a file descriptor was marked for closing, and
- end-of-file condition had already been detected, the file
- descriptor was never closed.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5093 Aux Id: seq8806 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>When the number of open file descriptors reached
- FD_SETSIZE, the SSL port program entered a busy loop.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5094 Aux Id: seq8806 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The SSL application now supports SSL sessions for
- servers, which typically speeds up HTTP requests from
- browsers.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5095</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 3.0.2</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The UTF8String type is now defined in asn1-1.4.4.2 and
- later. Therefore the definitions of UTF8String has been
- removed from the ASN.1 modules PKIX1Explicit88.asn1 and
- PKIXAttributeCertificate.asn1. The SSL application can now
- only be built using asn-1.4.4.2 or later.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4971.</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
- <p>See SSL-3.0.
- </p>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 3.0.1</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>An unexpected object identifier would crash <c>ssl:peercert</c>. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4771.</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
- <p>See SSL-3.0.
- </p>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 3.0</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The <c>cache_timout</c> option was silently ignored. It had
- to do with SSL sessions, where multiple connections can occur.
- Since the Erlang SSL application does not support sessions the
- option is still ignored, and consequently the documentation
- about it has been removed.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3146</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The Erlang SSL application is now based on OpenSSL version
- 0.9.7a. OpenSSL 0.9.6 should also work.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4002</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>When connecting it is now possible to bind to a local address
- and local port. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4675</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The <c>ssl_esock</c> port program is now part of the
- distribution and thus does not have to be created
- explicitly. It is dynamically linked to OpenSSL
- libraries in a "standard" location (typically
- <c>/usr/local/lib</c> on UNIX; in the path on Win32).</p>
- <p>OwnId:
- OTP-4676</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The new functions <c>ssl:peercert/1/2</c> provide information
- from the certificate of a peer of a connection.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4680
- <br></br>
-Aux Id: seq7688</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The function <c>ssl:port/1</c> has been removed from the
- documentation, but not from the <c>ssl</c> interface module.
- The recommendation is to use <c>ssl:peername/1</c>
- instead, which provides both address and port of the peer.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4681 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>New User's Guide documentation has been added.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4682 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The old <c>ssl_socket</c> interface has been removed and also
- the documentation of it. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4683 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The use of ephemeral RSA keys is now supported. It is
- a global configuration option (see the ssl(6) manual page).</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4691.</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The option <c>cacertfile</c> is now in effect, and can
- therefore no longer be set with the OS environment
- variable SSL_CERT_FILE (which did set the same value for
- all connections). </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3146</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>There was a synchronization error at closing of an SSL
- connection. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4435
- <br></br>
-Aux Id: seq7534</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>C macros in <c>debuglog.c</c> were not ANSI C compliant.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4674</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The <c>binary</c> option was not properly handled.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4678</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The <c>ssl:format_error/1</c> did not consider <c>inet</c>
- error codes, nor did it have a catch all for unknown error
- codes.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4679</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Change of controlling process in not OTP compliant. </p>
- <p>OwnId; OTP-4712</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>There is still no way to restrict the cipher sizes. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4712</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The <c>keep_alive</c> and <c>reuse_addr</c> options will be
- added in a future release. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4677</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>There is currently no way to restrict the SSL/TLS
- protocol versions to use. In a future release this will be
- supported as a configuration option, and as an option for
- each connection as well. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4711.</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 2.3.6</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>There was a synchronization error at closing, which could
- result in that an SSL socket was removed prematurely, resulting
- in that a user process referring to it received an unexpected
- exit.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4435
- <br></br>
-Aux Id: seq7600</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
- <p>See SSL 2.2 . </p>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 2.3.5</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Setting of the option `nodelay' caused the SSL port program
- to dump core.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4380
- <br></br>
-Aux Id: -</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Setting of the option '{active, once}' in <c>setopts</c> was
- wrong, causing a correct socket message to be regarded as
- erroneous. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4380
- <br></br>
-Aux Id: -</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>A self-signed peer certificate was always rejected with the
- error `eselfsignedcert', irrespective of the `depth' value. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4374
- <br></br>
-Aux Id: seq7417</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
- <p>See SSL 2.2 . </p>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 2.3.4</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>All TCP options allowed in gen_tcp, are now also allowed in
- SSL, except the option <c>{reuseaddr, Boolean}</c>. A new
- function <c>getopts</c> has been added to the SSL interface
- module <c>ssl</c>. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4305, OTP-4159</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 2.3.3</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The roles of the SSLeay and OpenSSL packages has been
- clarified in the ssl(6) application manual page. Also
- the URLs from which to download SSLeay has been updated.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4002
- <br></br>
-Aux Id: seq5269</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>A call to <c>ssl:listen(Port, Options)</c> with
- <c>Options = []</c> resulted in the cryptic <c>{error, ebadf}</c> return value. The return value has been changed
- to <c>{error, enooptions}</c>, and the behaviour has been
- documented in the <c>listen/2</c> function.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4016
- <br></br>
-Aux Id: seq7006</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Use of the option <c>{nodelay, boolean()}</c> crashed
- the <c>ssl_server</c>.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4070
- <br></br>
-Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>A bug caused the Erlang distribution over ssl to fail.
- This bug has now been fixed.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4072
- <br></br>
-Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>On Windows when the SSL port program encountered an
- error code not anticipated it crashed. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-4132
- <br></br>
-Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 2.3.2</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The <c>ssl:accept/1-2</c> function sometimes returned
- <c>{error, {What, Where}}</c> instead of <c>{error, What}</c>, where <c>What</c> is an atom. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3775
- <br></br>
-Aux Id: seq4991</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 2.3.1</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Sometimes the SSL portprogram would loop in an accept
- loop, without terminating even when the SSL application
- was stopped.. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3691</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 2.3</title>
- <p>Functions have been added to SSL to experimentally support
- Erlang distribution.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 2.2.1</title>
- <p>The 2.2.1 version of SSL provides code replacement in runtime
- by upgrading from, or downgrading to, versions 2.1 and 2.2.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 2.2</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The restriction that only the creator of an SSL socket can
- read from and write to the socket has been lifted.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3301</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The option <c>{packet, cdr}</c> for SSL sockets has been added,
- which means that SSL sockets also supports CDR encoded packets.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3302</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Setting of a CA certificate file with the <c>cacertfile</c>
- option (in calls to <c>ssl:accept/1/2</c> or
- <c>ssl:connect/3/4</c>) does not work due to weaknesses
- in the SSLeay package. </p>
- <p>A work-around is to set the OS environment variable
- <c>SSL_CERT_FILE</c> before SSL is started. However, then
- the CA certificate file will be global for all connections.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3146</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>When changing controlling process of an SSL socket, a
- temporary process is started, which is not gen_server
- compliant.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3146</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Although there is a <c>cache</c> timeout option, it is
- silently ignored.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3146</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>There is currently no way to restrict the cipher sizes.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3146</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 2.1</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The set of possible error reasons has been extended to
- contain diagnostics on erroneous certificates and failures
- to verify certificates.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3145</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The maximum number of simultaneous SSL connections on
- Windows has been increased from 31 to 127.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3145</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>A dead-lock occurring when write queues are not empty has
- been removed. </p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3145</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Error reasons have been unified and changed.</p>
- <p>(** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY **)</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3145</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>On Windows a check of the existence of the environment
- variable <c>ERLSRV_SERVICE_NAME</c> has been added. If
- that variable is defined, the port program of the SSL
- application will not terminated when a user logs off.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3145</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>An error in the setting of the <c>nodelay</c> option
- has been corrected.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3145</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The confounded notions of verify mode and verify depth has
- been corrected. The option <c>verifydepth</c> has been
- removed, and the two separate options <c>verify</c> and
- <c>depth</c> has been added.</p>
- <p>(** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY **)</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3145</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Setting of a CA certificate file with the <c>cacertfile</c>
- option (in calls to <c>ssl:accept/1/2</c> or
- <c>ssl:connect/3/4</c>) does not work due to weaknesses
- in the SSLeay package. </p>
- <p>A work-around is to set the OS environment variable
- <c>SSL_CERT_FILE</c> before SSL is started. However, then
- the CA certificate file will be global for all connections.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3146</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>When changing controlling process of an SSL socket, a
- temporary process is started, which is not gen_server
- compliant.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3146</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Although there is a <c>cache</c> timeout option, it is
- silently ignored.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3146</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>There is currently no way to restrict the cipher sizes.</p>
- <p>OwnId: OTP-3146</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL 2.0</title>
- <p>A complete new version of SSL with separate I/O channels
- for all connections with non-blocking I/O multiplexing.</p>
- </section>
</chapter>