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diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/notes.xml index 49bbd5d27d..a61f52b809 100644 --- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -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> @@ -22,15 +22,149 @@ </legalnotice> <title>SSL Release Notes</title> - <prepared>Peter Högfeldt</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> - <section><title>SSL 5.1.2</title> + <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 5.2</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> @@ -605,1285 +739,7 @@ </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> |