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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml | 24 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml index e019654685..5098d26a3a 100644 --- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml +++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml @@ -36,12 +36,16 @@ <list type="bulleted"> <item>ssl requires the crypto and public_key applications.</item> - <item>Supported SSL/TLS-versions are SSL-3.0 and TLS-1.0 </item> + <item>Supported SSL/TLS-versions are SSL-3.0 and TLS-1.0, experimental + support for TLS-1.1 and TLS-1.2 is also available (no support for elliptic curve cipher suites yet).</item> <item>For security reasons sslv2 is not supported.</item> <item>Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman cipher suites are supported but not Diffie Hellman Certificates cipher suites.</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 spec so there is not any + real motivation to implement them.</item> <item>CRL and policy certificate extensions are not supported yet. </item> </list> @@ -75,7 +79,7 @@ {keyfile, path()} | {password, string()} | {cacerts, [der_encoded()]} | {cacertfile, path()} | |{dh, der_encoded()} | {dhfile, path()} | {ciphers, ciphers()} | - {ssl_imp, ssl_imp()} | {reuse_sessions, boolean()} | {reuse_session, fun()} + {ssl_imp, ssl_imp()}| {reuse_sessions, boolean()} | {reuse_session, fun()} </c></p> <p><c>transportoption() = {CallbackModule, DataTag, ClosedTag} @@ -106,7 +110,7 @@ <p><c>sslsocket() - opaque to the user. </c></p> - <p><c>protocol() = sslv3 | tlsv1 </c></p> + <p><c>protocol() = sslv3 | tlsv1 | 'tlsv1.1' | 'tlsv1.2' </c></p> <p><c>ciphers() = [ciphersuite()] | string() (according to old API)</c></p> @@ -193,13 +197,13 @@ </item> <tag>{depth, integer()}</tag> - <item>Specifies the maximum - verification depth, i.e. how far in a chain of certificates the - verification process can proceed before the verification is - considered to fail. Peer certificate = 0, CA certificate = 1, - higher level CA certificate = 2, etc. The value 2 thus means - that a chain can at most contain peer cert, CA cert, next CA - cert, and an additional CA cert. The default value is 1. + <item> + The depth is the maximum number of non-self-issued + intermediate certificates that may follow the peer certificate + in a valid certification path. So if depth is 0 the PEER must + be signed by the trusted ROOT-CA directly, if 1 the path can + be PEER, CA, ROOT-CA, if it is 2 PEER, CA, CA, ROOT-CA and so + on. The default value is 1. </item> <tag>{verify_fun, {Verifyfun :: fun(), InitialUserState :: term()}}</tag> |