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diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/notes.xml index 5b0b5ead20..d13ad09470 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>2013</year> + <year>1999</year><year>2016</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -28,6 +28,377 @@ <p>This document describes the changes made to the SSL application.</p> +<section><title>SSL 8.1.3</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Remove debug printout</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14396</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>SSL 8.1.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Correct active once emulation, for TLS. Now all data + received by the connection process will be delivered + through active once, even when the active once arrives + after that the gen_tcp socket is closed by the peer.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14300</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>SSL 8.1.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Corrected termination behavior, that caused a PEM cache + bug and sometimes resulted in connection failures.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14100</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix bug that could hang ssl connection processes when + failing to require more data for very large handshake + packages. Add option max_handshake_size to mitigate DoS + attacks.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14138</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Improved support for CRL handling that could fail to work + as intended when an id-ce-extKeyUsage was present in the + certificate. Also improvements where needed to + distributionpoint handling so that all revocations + actually are found and not deemed to be not determinable.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14141</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + A TLS handshake might accidentally match old sslv2 format + and ssl application would incorrectly aborted TLS + handshake with ssl_v2_client_hello_no_supported. Parsing + was altered to avoid this problem.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14222</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Correct default cipher list to prefer AES 128 before 3DES</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14235</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Move PEM cache to a dedicated process, to avoid making + the SSL manager process a bottleneck. This improves + scalability of TLS connections.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13874</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>SSL 8.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + List of possible anonymous suites, never supported by + default, where incorrect for some TLS versions.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13926</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Experimental version of DTLS. It is runnable but not + complete and cannot be considered reliable for production + usage.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12982</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Add API options to handle ECC curve selection.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13959</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>SSL 8.0.3</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + A timing related bug in event handling could cause + interoperability problems between an erlang TLS server + and some TLS clients, especially noticed with Firefox as + TLS client.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13917</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Correct ECC curve selection, the error could cause the + default to always be selected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13918</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>SSL 8.0.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Correctly formed handshake messages received out of order + will now correctly fail the connection with unexpected + message.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13853</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + ssl application now behaves gracefully also on partially + incorrect input from peer.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13834</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Add application environment configuration + bypass_pem_cache. This can be used as a workaround for + the current implementation of the PEM-cache that has + proven to be a bottleneck.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13883</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>SSL 8.0.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + The TLS/SSL protocol version selection for the SSL server + has been corrected to follow RFC 5246 Appendix E.1 + especially in case where the list of supported versions + has gaps. Now the server selects the highest protocol + version it supports that is not higher than what the + client supports.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13753 Aux Id: seq13150 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>SSL 8.0</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Server now rejects, a not requested client cert, as an + incorrect handshake message and ends the connection.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13651</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Remove default support for DES cipher suites</p> + <p> + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13195</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Deprecate the function <c>crypto:rand_bytes</c> and make + sure that <c>crypto:strong_rand_bytes</c> is used in all + places that are cryptographically significant.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13214</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Better error handling of user error during TLS upgrade. + ERL-69 is solved by gen_statem rewrite of ssl + application.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13255</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Provide user friendly error message when crypto rejects a + key</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13256</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Add ssl:getstat/1 and ssl:getstat/2</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13415</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + TLS distribution connections now allow specifying the + options <c>verify_fun</c>, <c>crl_check</c> and + <c>crl_cache</c>. See the documentation. GitHub pull req + #956 contributed by Magnus Henoch.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13429 Aux Id: Pull#956 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Remove confusing error message when closing a distributed + erlang node running over TLS</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13431</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Remove default support for use of md5 in TLS 1.2 + signature algorithms</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13463</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + ssl now uses gen_statem instead of gen_fsm to implement + the ssl connection process, this solves some timing + issues in addition to making the code more intuitive as + the behaviour can be used cleanly instead of having a lot + of workaround for shortcomings of the behaviour.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13464</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Phase out interoperability with clients that offer SSLv2. + By default they are no longer supported, but an option to + provide interoperability is offered.</p> + <p> + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13465</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + OpenSSL has functions to generate short (eight hex + digits) hashes of issuers of certificates and CRLs. These + hashes are used by the "c_rehash" script to populate + directories of CA certificates and CRLs, e.g. in the + Apache web server. Add functionality to let an Erlang + program find the right CRL for a given certificate in + such a directory.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13530</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Some legacy TLS 1.0 software does not tolerate the 1/n-1 + content split BEAST mitigation technique. Add a + beast_mitigation SSL option (defaulting to + one_n_minus_one) to select or disable the BEAST + mitigation technique.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13629</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Enhance error log messages to facilitate for users to + understand the error</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13632</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Increased default DH params to 2048-bit</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13636</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Propagate CRL unknown CA error so that public_key + validation process continues correctly and determines + what should happen.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13656</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Introduce a flight concept for handshake packages. This + is a preparation for enabling DTLS, however it can also + have a positive effects for TLS on slow and unreliable + networks.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13678</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>SSL 7.3.3</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> |