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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1999</year><year>2017</year>
+ <year>1999</year><year>2018</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -28,256 +28,344 @@
<rev></rev>
<file>ssl.xml</file>
</header>
- <module>ssl</module>
+ <module since="">ssl</module>
<modulesummary>Interface Functions for Secure Socket Layer</modulesummary>
<description>
<p>
- This module contains interface functions for the SSL/TLS protocol.
+ This module contains interface functions for the SSL/TLS/DTLS protocol.
For detailed information about the supported standards see
<seealso marker="ssl_app">ssl(6)</seealso>.
</p>
</description>
-
- <section>
- <title>DATA TYPES</title>
- <p>The following data types are used in the functions for SSL:</p>
-
- <taglist>
-
- <tag><c>boolean() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>true | false</c></p></item>
-
- <tag><c>option() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>socketoption() | ssl_option() | transport_option()</c></p>
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>socketoption() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>proplists:property()</c></p>
- <p>The default socket options are
- <c>[{mode,list},{packet, 0},{header, 0},{active, true}]</c>.</p>
- <p>For valid options, see the
- <seealso marker="kernel:inet">inet(3)</seealso> and
- <seealso marker="kernel:gen_tcp">gen_tcp(3)</seealso> manual pages
- in Kernel.</p></item>
-
- <tag><marker id="type-ssloption"/><c>ssl_option() =</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p><c>{verify, verify_type()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {verify_fun, {fun(), term()}}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {fail_if_no_peer_cert, boolean()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {depth, integer()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {cert, public_key:der_encoded()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {certfile, path()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {key, {'RSAPrivateKey'| 'DSAPrivateKey' | 'ECPrivateKey'
- | 'PrivateKeyInfo', public_key:der_encoded()} |
- #{algorithm := rsa | dss | ecdsa,
- engine := crypto:engine_ref(), key_id := crypto:key_id(), password => crypto:password()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {keyfile, path()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {password, string()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {cacerts, [public_key:der_encoded()]}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {cacertfile, path()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {dh, public_key:der_encoded()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {dhfile, path()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {ciphers, ciphers()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {user_lookup_fun, {fun(), term()}}, {psk_identity, string()},
- {srp_identity, {string(), string()}}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {reuse_sessions, boolean()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {reuse_session, fun()} {next_protocols_advertised, [binary()]}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {client_preferred_next_protocols, {client | server,
- [binary()]} | {client | server, [binary()], binary()}}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {log_alert, boolean()}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {server_name_indication, hostname() | disable}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {sni_hosts, [{hostname(), [ssl_option()]}]}</c></p>
- <p><c>| {sni_fun, SNIfun::fun()}</c></p>
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>transport_option() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>{cb_info, {CallbackModule::atom(), DataTag::atom(),
-
- ClosedTag::atom(), ErrTag:atom()}}</c></p>
- <p>Defaults to <c>{gen_tcp, tcp, tcp_closed, tcp_error}</c>. Can be used
- to customize the transport layer. The callback module must implement a
- reliable transport protocol, behave as <c>gen_tcp</c>, and have functions
- corresponding to <c>inet:setopts/2</c>, <c>inet:getopts/2</c>,
- <c>inet:peername/1</c>, <c>inet:sockname/1</c>, and <c>inet:port/1</c>.
- The callback <c>gen_tcp</c> is treated specially and calls <c>inet</c>
- directly.</p>
- <taglist>
- <tag><c>CallbackModule =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>atom()</c></p></item>
- <tag><c>DataTag =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>atom()</c></p>
- <p>Used in socket data message.</p></item>
- <tag><c>ClosedTag =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>atom()</c></p>
- <p>Used in socket close message.</p></item>
- </taglist>
- </item>
- <tag><c>verify_type() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>verify_none | verify_peer</c></p></item>
+ <!--
+ ================================================================
+ = Data types =
+ ================================================================
+ -->
- <tag><c>path() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>string()</c></p>
- <p>Represents a file path.</p></item>
+ <datatypes>
+ <datatype_title>Types used in SSL/TLS/DTLS</datatype_title>
- <tag><c>public_key:der_encoded() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>binary()</c></p>
- <p>ASN.1 DER-encoded entity as an Erlang binary.</p></item>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="socket"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="sslsocket"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>An opaque reference to the TLS/DTLS connection, may be used for equality matching.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="tls_option"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="tls_client_option"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="tls_server_option"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="socket_option"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>The default socket options are
+ <c>[{mode,list},{packet, 0},{header, 0},{active, true}]</c>.</p>
+ <p>For valid options, see the
+ <seealso marker="kernel:inet">inet(3)</seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="kernel:gen_tcp">gen_tcp(3)</seealso> and
+ <seealso marker="kernel:gen_tcp">gen_udp(3)</seealso>
+ manual pages in Kernel. Note that stream oriented options such as packet
+ are only relevant for SSL/TLS and not DTLS</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>host() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>hostname() | ipaddress()</c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="active_msgs"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>When a TLS/DTLS socket is in active mode (the default), data from the
+ socket is delivered to the owner of the socket in the form of
+ messages as described above.</p>
+ <p>The <c>ssl_passive</c> message is sent only when the socket is in
+ <c>{active, N}</c> mode and the counter dropped to 0. It indicates
+ that the socket has transitioned to passive (<c>{active, false}</c>) mode.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="transport_option"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Defaults to <c>{gen_tcp, tcp, tcp_closed, tcp_error,
+ tcp_passive}</c> for TLS (for backward compatibility a four
+ tuple will be converted to a five tuple with the last element
+ "second_element"_passive) and <c>{gen_udp, udp, udp_closed,
+ udp_error}</c> for DTLS (might also be changed to five tuple in
+ the future). Can be used to customize the transport layer. The
+ tag values should be the values used by the underlying
+ transport in its active mode messages. For TLS the callback
+ module must implement a reliable transport protocol, behave as
+ <c>gen_tcp</c>, and have functions corresponding to
+ <c>inet:setopts/2</c>, <c>inet:getopts/2</c>,
+ <c>inet:peername/1</c>, <c>inet:sockname/1</c>, and
+ <c>inet:port/1</c>. The callback <c>gen_tcp</c> is treated
+ specially and calls <c>inet</c> directly. For DTLS this
+ feature must be considered exprimental.
+ </p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="host"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>hostname() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>string() - DNS hostname</c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="hostname"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>ip_address() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>{N1,N2,N3,N4} % IPv4 | {K1,K2,K3,K4,K5,K6,K7,K8} % IPv6
- </c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="ip_address"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>sslsocket() =</c></tag>
- <item><p>opaque()</p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="protocol_version"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><marker id="type-protocol"/><c>protocol_version() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>sslv3 | tlsv1 | 'tlsv1.1' | 'tlsv1.2'</c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="tls_version"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>ciphers() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>= [ciphersuite()]</c></p>
- <p>Tuples and string formats accepted by versions
- before ssl-8.2.4 will be converted for backwards compatibility</p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="dtls_version"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>ciphersuite() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>
- #{key_exchange := key_exchange(),
- cipher := cipher(),
- mac := MAC::hash() | aead,
- prf := PRF::hash() | default_prf} </c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="legacy_version"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>key_exchange()=</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>rsa | dhe_dss | dhe_rsa | dh_anon | psk | dhe_psk
- | rsa_psk | srp_anon | srp_dss | srp_rsa | ecdh_anon | ecdh_ecdsa
- | ecdhe_ecdsa | ecdh_rsa | ecdhe_rsa</c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="prf_random"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="verify_type"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="ciphers"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="erl_cipher_suite"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="cipher"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="legacy_cipher"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="cipher_filters"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="hash"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>cipher() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>rc4_128 | des_cbc | '3des_ede_cbc'
- | aes_128_cbc | aes_256_cbc | aes_128_gcm | aes_256_gcm | chacha20_poly1305</c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="sha2"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>hash() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>md5 | sha | sha224 | sha256 | sha348 | sha512</c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="legacy_hash"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>prf_random() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>client_random | server_random</c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="old_cipher_suite"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="signature_algs"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="sign_algo"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>cipher_filters() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c> [{key_exchange | cipher | mac | prf, algo_filter()}])</c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="kex_algo"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>algo_filter() =</c></tag>
- <item><p>fun(key_exchange() | cipher() | hash() | aead | default_prf) -> true | false </p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="algo_filter"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>srp_param_type() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>srp_1024 | srp_1536 | srp_2048 | srp_3072
- | srp_4096 | srp_6144 | srp_8192</c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="named_curve"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>SNIfun::fun()</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>= fun(ServerName :: string()) -> [ssl_option()]</c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="psk_identity"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>named_curve() =</c></tag>
- <item><p><c>sect571r1 | sect571k1 | secp521r1 | brainpoolP512r1
- | sect409k1 | sect409r1 | brainpoolP384r1 | secp384r1
- | sect283k1 | sect283r1 | brainpoolP256r1 | secp256k1 | secp256r1
- | sect239k1 | sect233k1 | sect233r1 | secp224k1 | secp224r1
- | sect193r1 | sect193r2 | secp192k1 | secp192r1 | sect163k1
- | sect163r1 | sect163r2 | secp160k1 | secp160r1 | secp160r2</c></p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="srp_identity"/>
+ </datatype>
- </taglist>
- </section>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="srp_param_type"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="app_level_protocol"/>
+ </datatype>
- <section>
- <title>SSL OPTION DESCRIPTIONS - COMMON for SERVER and CLIENT</title>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="protocol_extensions"/>
+ </datatype>
- <p>The following options have the same meaning in the client and
- the server:</p>
-
- <taglist>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="error_alert"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>{protocol, tls | dtls}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Choose TLS or DTLS protocol for the transport layer security.
- Defaults to <c>tls</c> Introduced in OTP 20, DTLS support is considered
- experimental in this release. DTLS over other transports than UDP are not yet supported.</p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="tls_alert"/>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>{cert, public_key:der_encoded()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>The DER-encoded users certificate. If this option
- is supplied, it overrides option <c>certfile</c>.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{certfile, path()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Path to a file containing the user certificate.</p></item>
-
- <tag>
- <marker id="key_option_def"/>
- <c>{key, {'RSAPrivateKey'| 'DSAPrivateKey' | 'ECPrivateKey'
- |'PrivateKeyInfo', public_key:der_encoded()} | #{algorithm := rsa | dss | ecdsa,
- engine := crypto:engine_ref(), key_id := crypto:key_id(), password => crypto:password()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>The DER-encoded user's private key or a map refering to a crypto
- engine and its key reference that optionally can be password protected,
- seealso <seealso marker="crypto:crypto#engine_load-4"> crypto:engine_load/4
- </seealso> and <seealso marker="crypto:engine_load"> Crypto's Users Guide</seealso>. If this option
- is supplied, it overrides option <c>keyfile</c>.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{keyfile, path()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Path to the file containing the user's
- private PEM-encoded key. As PEM-files can contain several
- entries, this option defaults to the same file as given by
- option <c>certfile</c>.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{password, string()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>String containing the user's password. Only used if the
- private keyfile is password-protected.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{ciphers, ciphers()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Supported cipher suites. The function
- <c>cipher_suites/0</c> can be used to find all ciphers that are
- supported by default. <c>cipher_suites(all)</c> can be called
- to find all available cipher suites. Pre-Shared Key
- (<url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4279.txt">RFC 4279</url> and
- <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5487.txt">RFC 5487</url>),
- Secure Remote Password
- (<url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5054.txt">RFC 5054</url>), RC4 cipher suites,
- and anonymous cipher suites only work if explicitly enabled by
- this option; they are supported/enabled by the peer also.
- Anonymous cipher suites are supported for testing purposes
- only and are not be used when security matters.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{eccs, [named_curve()]}</c></tag>
- <item><p> Allows to specify the order of preference for named curves
- and to restrict their usage when using a cipher suite supporting them.
- </p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{secure_renegotiate, boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Specifies if to reject renegotiation attempt that does
- not live up to
- <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5746.txt">RFC 5746</url>.
- By default <c>secure_renegotiate</c> is set to <c>false</c>,
- that is, secure renegotiation is used if possible,
- but it falls back to insecure renegotiation if the peer
- does not support
- <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5746.txt">RFC 5746</url>.</p>
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>{depth, integer()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Maximum number of non-self-issued
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="reason"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype_title>TLS/DTLS OPTION DESCRIPTIONS - COMMON for SERVER and CLIENT</datatype_title>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="common_option"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name since="OTP 20" name="protocol"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Choose TLS or DTLS protocol for the transport layer security.
+ Defaults to <c>tls</c>. For DTLS other transports than UDP are not yet supported.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="handshake_completion"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Defaults to <c>full</c>. If hello is specified the handshake will
+ pause after the hello message and give the user a possibility make decisions
+ based on hello extensions before continuing or aborting the handshake by calling
+ <seealso marker="#handshake_continue-3"> handshake_continue/3</seealso> or
+ <seealso marker="#handshake_cancel-1"> handshake_cancel/1</seealso></p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="cert"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>The DER-encoded users certificate. If this option
+ is supplied, it overrides option <c>certfile</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="cert_pem"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Path to a file containing the user certificate on PEM format.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="key"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>The DER-encoded user's private key or a map refering to a crypto
+ engine and its key reference that optionally can be password protected,
+ seealso <seealso marker="crypto:crypto#engine_load-4"> crypto:engine_load/4
+ </seealso> and <seealso marker="crypto:engine_load"> Crypto's Users Guide</seealso>. If this option
+ is supplied, it overrides option <c>keyfile</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="key_pem"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Path to the file containing the user's
+ private PEM-encoded key. As PEM-files can contain several
+ entries, this option defaults to the same file as given by
+ option <c>certfile</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="key_password"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>String containing the user's password. Only used if the
+ private keyfile is password-protected.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="cipher_suites"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Supported cipher suites. The function
+ <c>cipher_suites/2</c> can be used to find all ciphers that
+ are supported by default. <c>cipher_suites(all, 'tlsv1.2')</c> can be
+ called to find all available cipher suites. Pre-Shared Key
+ (<url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4279.txt">RFC
+ 4279</url> and <url
+ href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5487.txt">RFC 5487</url>),
+ Secure Remote Password (<url
+ href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5054.txt">RFC 5054</url>),
+ RC4, 3DES, DES cipher suites, and anonymous cipher suites only work if
+ explicitly enabled by this option; they are supported/enabled
+ by the peer also. Anonymous cipher suites are supported for
+ testing purposes only and are not be used when security
+ matters.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="secure_renegotiation"/>
+ <desc><p>Specifies if to reject renegotiation attempt that does
+ not live up to <url
+ href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5746.txt">RFC 5746</url>. By
+ default <c>secure_renegotiate</c> is set to <c>true</c>, that
+ is, secure renegotiation is enforced. If set to <c>false</c>
+ secure renegotiation will still be used if possible, but it
+ falls back to insecure renegotiation if the peer does not
+ support <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5746.txt">RFC
+ 5746</url>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="allowed_cert_chain_length"/>
+ <desc><p>Maximum number of non-self-issued
intermediate certificates that can 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 2 the path can be PEER, CA, CA,
- ROOT-CA, and so on. The default value is 1.</p></item>
-
- <tag><marker id="verify_fun"/><c>{verify_fun, {Verifyfun :: fun(), InitialUserState ::
- term()}}</c></tag>
- <item><p>The verification fun is to be defined as follows:</p>
+ ROOT-CA, and so on. The default value is 1.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="custom_verify"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>The verification fun is to be defined as follows:</p>
<code>
-fun(OtpCert :: #'OTPCertificate'{}, Event :: {bad_cert, Reason :: atom() | {revoked,
-atom()}} |
+fun(OtpCert :: #'OTPCertificate'{}, Event :: {bad_cert, Reason :: atom() |
+ {revoked, atom()}} |
{extension, #'Extension'{}}, InitialUserState :: term()) ->
{valid, UserState :: term()} | {valid_peer, UserState :: term()} |
{fail, Reason :: term()} | {unknown, UserState :: term()}.
@@ -285,24 +373,25 @@ atom()}} |
<p>The verification fun is called during the X509-path
validation when an error or an extension unknown to the SSL
- application is encountered. It is also called
- when a certificate is considered valid by the path validation
- to allow access to each certificate in the path to the user
- application. It differentiates between the peer
- certificate and the CA certificates by using <c>valid_peer</c> or
- <c>valid</c> as second argument to the verification fun. See the
- <seealso marker="public_key:public_key_records">public_key User's
- Guide</seealso> for definition of <c>#'OTPCertificate'{}</c> and
- <c>#'Extension'{}</c>.</p>
+ application is encountered. It is also called when a
+ certificate is considered valid by the path validation to
+ allow access to each certificate in the path to the user
+ application. It differentiates between the peer certificate
+ and the CA certificates by using <c>valid_peer</c> or
+ <c>valid</c> as second argument to the verification fun. See
+ the <seealso marker="public_key:public_key_records">public_key
+ User's Guide</seealso> for definition of
+ <c>#'OTPCertificate'{}</c> and <c>#'Extension'{}</c>.</p>
<list type="bulleted">
- <item><p>If the verify callback fun returns <c>{fail, Reason}</c>,
- the verification process is immediately stopped, an alert is
- sent to the peer, and the TLS/SSL handshake terminates.</p></item>
+ <item><p>If the verify callback fun returns <c>{fail,
+ Reason}</c>, the verification process is immediately
+ stopped, an alert is sent to the peer, and the TLS/DTLS
+ handshake terminates.</p></item>
<item><p>If the verify callback fun returns <c>{valid, UserState}</c>,
the verification process continues.</p></item>
<item><p>If the verify callback fun always returns
- <c>{valid, UserState}</c>, the TLS/SSL handshake does not
+ <c>{valid, UserState}</c>, the TLS/DTLS handshake does not
terminate regarding verification failures and the connection is
established.</p></item>
<item><p>If called with an extension unknown to the user application,
@@ -348,10 +437,12 @@ atom()}} |
<taglist>
<tag><c>unknown_ca</c></tag>
- <item><p>No trusted CA was found in the trusted store. The trusted CA is
- normally a so called ROOT CA, which is a self-signed certificate. Trust can
- be claimed for an intermediate CA (trusted anchor does not have to be
- self-signed according to X-509) by using option <c>partial_chain</c>.</p>
+ <item><p>No trusted CA was found in the trusted store. The
+ trusted CA is normally a so called ROOT CA, which is a
+ self-signed certificate. Trust can be claimed for an
+ intermediate CA (trusted anchor does not have to be
+ self-signed according to X-509) by using option
+ <c>partial_chain</c>.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>selfsigned_peer</c></tag>
@@ -362,15 +453,17 @@ atom()}} |
marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_path_validation-3">public_key:pkix_path_validation/3</seealso>
</p></item>
</taglist>
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>{crl_check, boolean() | peer | best_effort }</c></tag>
- <item>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="crl_check"/>
+ <desc>
<p>Perform CRL (Certificate Revocation List) verification
<seealso marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_crls_validate-3">
- (public_key:pkix_crls_validate/3)</seealso> on all the certificates during the path validation
- <seealso
- marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_path_validation-3">(public_key:pkix_path_validation/3)
+ (public_key:pkix_crls_validate/3)</seealso> on all the
+ certificates during the path validation <seealso
+ marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_path_validation-3">(public_key:pkix_path_validation/3)
</seealso>
of the certificate chain. Defaults to <c>false</c>.</p>
@@ -382,111 +475,111 @@ marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_path_validation-3">public_key:pkix_path_valid
<item>if certificate revocation status can not be determined
it will be accepted as valid.</item>
</taglist>
-
+
<p>The CA certificates specified for the connection will be used to
construct the certificate chain validating the CRLs.</p>
<p>The CRLs will be fetched from a local or external cache. See
<seealso marker="ssl:ssl_crl_cache_api">ssl_crl_cache_api(3)</seealso>.</p>
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>{crl_cache, {Module :: atom(), {DbHandle :: internal | term(), Args :: list()}}}</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p>Specify how to perform lookup and caching of certificate revocation lists.
- <c>Module</c> defaults to <seealso marker="ssl:ssl_crl_cache">ssl_crl_cache</seealso>
- with <c> DbHandle </c> being <c>internal</c> and an
- empty argument list.</p>
-
- <p>There are two implementations available:</p>
-
- <taglist>
- <tag><c>ssl_crl_cache</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p>This module maintains a cache of CRLs. CRLs can be
- added to the cache using the function <seealso
- marker="ssl:ssl_crl_cache#insert-1">ssl_crl_cache:insert/1</seealso>,
- and optionally automatically fetched through HTTP if the
- following argument is specified:</p>
-
- <taglist>
- <tag><c>{http, timeout()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>
- Enables fetching of CRLs specified as http URIs in<seealso
- marker="public_key:public_key_records">X509 certificate extensions</seealso>.
- Requires the OTP inets application.</p>
- </item>
- </taglist>
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>ssl_crl_hash_dir</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p>This module makes use of a directory where CRLs are
- stored in files named by the hash of the issuer name.</p>
-
- <p>The file names consist of eight hexadecimal digits
- followed by <c>.rN</c>, where <c>N</c> is an integer,
- e.g. <c>1a2b3c4d.r0</c>. For the first version of the
- CRL, <c>N</c> starts at zero, and for each new version,
- <c>N</c> is incremented by one. The OpenSSL utility
- <c>c_rehash</c> creates symlinks according to this
- pattern.</p>
-
- <p>For a given hash value, this module finds all
- consecutive <c>.r*</c> files starting from zero, and those
- files taken together make up the revocation list. CRL
- files whose <c>nextUpdate</c> fields are in the past, or
- that are issued by a different CA that happens to have the
- same name hash, are excluded.</p>
-
- <p>The following argument is required:</p>
-
- <taglist>
- <tag><c>{dir, string()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Specifies the directory in which the CRLs can be found.</p></item>
- </taglist>
-
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>max_handshake_size</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p>Integer (24 bits unsigned). Used to limit the size of
- valid TLS handshake packets to avoid DoS attacks.
- Defaults to 256*1024.</p>
- </item>
-
- </taglist>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
- </item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="crl_cache_opts"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Specify how to perform lookup and caching of certificate revocation lists.
+ <c>Module</c> defaults to <seealso marker="ssl:ssl_crl_cache">ssl_crl_cache</seealso>
+ with <c> DbHandle </c> being <c>internal</c> and an
+ empty argument list.</p>
+
+ <p>There are two implementations available:</p>
+
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>ssl_crl_cache</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>This module maintains a cache of CRLs. CRLs can be
+ added to the cache using the function <seealso
+ marker="ssl:ssl_crl_cache#insert-1">ssl_crl_cache:insert/1</seealso>,
+ and optionally automatically fetched through HTTP if the
+ following argument is specified:</p>
+
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>{http, timeout()}</c></tag>
+ <item><p>
+ Enables fetching of CRLs specified as http URIs in<seealso
+ marker="public_key:public_key_records">X509 certificate extensions</seealso>.
+ Requires the OTP inets application.</p>
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
+ </item>
+
+ <tag><c>ssl_crl_hash_dir</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>This module makes use of a directory where CRLs are
+ stored in files named by the hash of the issuer name.</p>
+
+ <p>The file names consist of eight hexadecimal digits
+ followed by <c>.rN</c>, where <c>N</c> is an integer,
+ e.g. <c>1a2b3c4d.r0</c>. For the first version of the
+ CRL, <c>N</c> starts at zero, and for each new version,
+ <c>N</c> is incremented by one. The OpenSSL utility
+ <c>c_rehash</c> creates symlinks according to this
+ pattern.</p>
+
+ <p>For a given hash value, this module finds all
+ consecutive <c>.r*</c> files starting from zero, and those
+ files taken together make up the revocation list. CRL
+ files whose <c>nextUpdate</c> fields are in the past, or
+ that are issued by a different CA that happens to have the
+ same name hash, are excluded.</p>
+
+ <p>The following argument is required:</p>
+
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>{dir, string()}</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Specifies the directory in which the CRLs can be found.</p></item>
+ </taglist>
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="root_fun"/>
+ <desc>
+ <code>
+fun(Chain::[public_key:der_encoded()]) ->
+ {trusted_ca, DerCert::public_key:der_encoded()} | unknown_ca}
+ </code>
+ <p>Claim an intermediate CA in the chain as trusted. TLS then
+ performs <seealso
+ marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_path_validation-3">public_key:pkix_path_validation/3</seealso>
+ with the selected CA as trusted anchor and the rest of the chain.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>{partial_chain, fun(Chain::[DerCert]) -> {trusted_ca, DerCert} |
- unknown_ca }</c></tag>
- <item><p>Claim an intermediate CA in the chain as trusted. TLS then
- performs <seealso
- marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_path_validation-3">public_key:pkix_path_validation/3</seealso>
- with the selected CA as trusted anchor and the rest of the chain.</p></item>
- <tag><c>{versions, [protocol_version()]}</c></tag>
- <item><p>TLS protocol versions supported by started clients and servers.
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="protocol_versions"/>
+ <desc><p>TLS protocol versions supported by started clients and servers.
This option overrides the application environment option
- <c>protocol_version</c>. If the environment option is not set, it defaults
+ <c>protocol_version</c> and <c>dtls_protocol_version</c>. If the environment option is not set, it defaults
to all versions, except SSL-3.0, supported by the SSL application.
- See also <seealso marker="ssl:ssl_app">ssl(6).</seealso></p></item>
+ See also <seealso marker="ssl:ssl_app">ssl(6).</seealso></p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>{hibernate_after, integer()|undefined}</c></tag>
- <item><p>When an integer-value is specified, <c>ssl_connection</c>
- goes into hibernation after the specified number of milliseconds
- of inactivity, thus reducing its memory footprint. When
- <c>undefined</c> is specified (this is the default), the process
- never goes into hibernation.</p></item>
- <tag><c>{user_lookup_fun, {Lookupfun :: fun(), UserState :: term()}}</c></tag>
- <item><p>The lookup fun is to defined as follows:</p>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="custom_user_lookup"/>
+ <desc><p>The lookup fun is to defined as follows:</p>
<code>
fun(psk, PSKIdentity ::string(), UserState :: term()) ->
{ok, SharedSecret :: binary()} | error;
fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
- {ok, {SRPParams :: srp_param_type(), Salt :: binary(), DerivedKey :: binary()}} | error.
+ {ok, {SRPParams :: srp_param_type(), Salt :: binary(),
+ DerivedKey :: binary()}} | error.
</code>
<p>For Pre-Shared Key (PSK) cipher suites, the lookup fun is
@@ -502,20 +595,54 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
<url href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5054#section-2.4"> RFC 5054</url>:
<c>crypto:sha([Salt, crypto:sha([Username, &lt;&lt;$:&gt;&gt;, Password])])</c>
</p>
- </item>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>{padding_check, boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Affects TLS-1.0 connections only.
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="session_id"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Identifies a TLS session.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="log_alert"/>
+ <desc><p>If set to <c>false</c>, error reports are not displayed.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="hibernate_after"/>
+ <desc><p>When an integer-value is specified, <c>TLS/DTLS-connection</c>
+ goes into hibernation after the specified number of milliseconds
+ of inactivity, thus reducing its memory footprint. When
+ <c>undefined</c> is specified (this is the default), the process
+ never goes into hibernation.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="handshake_size"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Integer (24 bits unsigned). Used to limit the size of
+ valid TLS handshake packets to avoid DoS attacks.
+ Defaults to 256*1024.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="padding_check"/>
+ <desc><p>Affects TLS-1.0 connections only.
If set to <c>false</c>, it disables the block cipher padding check
to be able to interoperate with legacy software.</p>
<warning><p>Using <c>{padding_check, boolean()}</c> makes TLS
vulnerable to the Poodle attack.</p></warning>
- </item>
-
-
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>{beast_mitigation, one_n_minus_one | zero_n | disabled}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Affects SSL-3.0 and TLS-1.0 connections only. Used to change the BEAST
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="beast_mitigation"/>
+ <desc><p>Affects SSL-3.0 and TLS-1.0 connections only. Used to change the BEAST
mitigation strategy to interoperate with legacy software.
Defaults to <c>one_n_minus_one</c>.</p>
@@ -525,119 +652,170 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
<p><c>disabled</c> - Disable BEAST mitigation.</p>
- <warning><p>Using <c>{beast_mitigation, disabled}</c> makes SSL or TLS
+ <warning><p>Using <c>{beast_mitigation, disabled}</c> makes SSL-3.0 or TLS-1.0
vulnerable to the BEAST attack.</p></warning>
- </item>
- </taglist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL OPTION DESCRIPTIONS - CLIENT SIDE</title>
-
- <p>The following options are client-specific or have a slightly different
- meaning in the client than in the server:</p>
-
- <taglist>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="ssl_imp"/>
+ <desc><p>Deprecated since OTP-17, has no affect.</p></desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype_title>TLS/DTLS OPTION DESCRIPTIONS - CLIENT</datatype_title>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="client_option"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="client_verify_type"/>
+ <desc><p>In mode <c>verify_none</c> the default behavior is to allow
+ all x509-path validation errors. See also option <seealso marker="#type-custom_verify">verify_fun</seealso>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>{verify, verify_type()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>In mode <c>verify_none</c> the default behavior is to allow
- all x509-path validation errors. See also option <c>verify_fun</c>.</p>
- </item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="client_reuse_session"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Reuses a specific session earlier saved with the option
+ <c>{reuse_sessions, save} since OTP-21.3 </c>
+ </p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>{reuse_sessions, boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Specifies if the client is to try to reuse sessions
- when possible.</p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="client_reuse_sessions"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>When <c>save</c> is specified a new connection will be negotiated
+ and saved for later reuse. The session ID can be fetched with
+ <seealso marker="#connection_information-2">connection_information/2</seealso>
+ and used with the client option <seealso marker="#type-client_reuse_session">reuse_session</seealso>
+ The boolean value true specifies that if possible, automatized session reuse will
+ be performed. If a new session is created, and is unique in regard
+ to previous stored sessions, it will be saved for possible later reuse. Since OTP-21.3</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>{cacerts, [public_key:der_encoded()]}</c></tag>
- <item><p>The DER-encoded trusted certificates. If this option
- is supplied it overrides option <c>cacertfile</c>.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{cacertfile, path()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Path to a file containing PEM-encoded CA certificates. The CA
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="client_cacerts"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>The DER-encoded trusted certificates. If this option
+ is supplied it overrides option <c>cacertfile</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="client_cafile"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Path to a file containing PEM-encoded CA certificates. The CA
certificates are used during server authentication and when building the
client certificate chain.</p>
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>{alpn_advertised_protocols, [binary()]}</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p>The list of protocols supported by the client to be sent to the
- server to be used for an Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN).
- If the server supports ALPN then it will choose a protocol from this
- list; otherwise it will fail the connection with a "no_application_protocol"
- alert. A server that does not support ALPN will ignore this value.</p>
-
- <p>The list of protocols must not contain an empty binary.</p>
-
- <p>The negotiated protocol can be retrieved using the <c>negotiated_protocol/1</c> function.</p>
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>{client_preferred_next_protocols, {Precedence :: server | client, ClientPrefs :: [binary()]}}</c><br/>
- <c>{client_preferred_next_protocols, {Precedence :: server | client, ClientPrefs :: [binary()], Default :: binary()}}</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p>Indicates that the client is to try to perform Next Protocol
- Negotiation.</p>
-
- <p>If precedence is server, the negotiated protocol is the
- first protocol to be shown on the server advertised list, which is
- also on the client preference list.</p>
-
- <p>If precedence is client, the negotiated protocol is the
- first protocol to be shown on the client preference list, which is
- also on the server advertised list.</p>
-
- <p>If the client does not support any of the server advertised
- protocols or the server does not advertise any protocols, the
- client falls back to the first protocol in its list or to the
- default protocol (if a default is supplied). If the
- server does not support Next Protocol Negotiation, the
- connection terminates if no default protocol is supplied.</p>
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>{psk_identity, string()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Specifies the identity the client presents to the server.
- The matching secret is found by calling <c>user_lookup_fun</c>.</p>
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>{srp_identity, {Username :: string(), Password :: string()}
- </c></tag>
- <item><p>Specifies the username and password to use to authenticate
- to the server.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{server_name_indication, HostName :: hostname()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Specify the hostname to be used in TLS Server Name Indication extension.
- If not specified it will default to the <c>Host</c> argument of <seealso marker="#connect-3">connect/[3,4]</seealso>
- unless it is of type inet:ipaddress().</p>
- <p>
- The <c>HostName</c> will also be used in the hostname verification of the peer certificate using
- <seealso marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_verify_hostname-2">public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/2</seealso>.
- </p>
- </item>
- <tag><c>{server_name_indication, disable}</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p> Prevents the Server Name Indication extension from being sent and
- disables the hostname verification check
- <seealso marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_verify_hostname-2">public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/2</seealso> </p>
- </item>
- <tag><c>{fallback, boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p> Send special cipher suite TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV to avoid undesired TLS version downgrade.
- Defaults to false</p>
- <warning><p>Note this option is not needed in normal TLS usage and should not be used
- to implement new clients. But legacy clients that retries connections in the following manner</p>
-
- <p><c> ssl:connect(Host, Port, [...{versions, ['tlsv2', 'tlsv1.1', 'tlsv1', 'sslv3']}])</c></p>
- <p><c> ssl:connect(Host, Port, [...{versions, [tlsv1.1', 'tlsv1', 'sslv3']}, {fallback, true}])</c></p>
- <p><c> ssl:connect(Host, Port, [...{versions, ['tlsv1', 'sslv3']}, {fallback, true}]) </c></p>
- <p><c> ssl:connect(Host, Port, [...{versions, ['sslv3']}, {fallback, true}]) </c></p>
-
- <p>may use it to avoid undesired TLS version downgrade. Note that TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV must also
- be supported by the server for the prevention to work.
- </p></warning>
- </item>
- <tag><marker id="client_signature_algs"/><c>{signature_algs, [{hash(), ecdsa | rsa | dsa}]}</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p>In addition to the algorithms negotiated by the cipher
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="client_alpn"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>The list of protocols supported by the client to be sent to the
+ server to be used for an Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN).
+ If the server supports ALPN then it will choose a protocol from this
+ list; otherwise it will fail the connection with a "no_application_protocol"
+ alert. A server that does not support ALPN will ignore this value.</p>
+
+ <p>The list of protocols must not contain an empty binary.</p>
+
+ <p>The negotiated protocol can be retrieved using the <c>negotiated_protocol/1</c> function.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="client_preferred_next_protocols"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Indicates that the client is to try to perform Next Protocol
+ Negotiation.</p>
+
+ <p>If precedence is server, the negotiated protocol is the
+ first protocol to be shown on the server advertised list, which is
+ also on the client preference list.</p>
+
+ <p>If precedence is client, the negotiated protocol is the
+ first protocol to be shown on the client preference list, which is
+ also on the server advertised list.</p>
+
+ <p>If the client does not support any of the server advertised
+ protocols or the server does not advertise any protocols, the
+ client falls back to the first protocol in its list or to the
+ default protocol (if a default is supplied). If the
+ server does not support Next Protocol Negotiation, the
+ connection terminates if no default protocol is supplied.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="client_psk_identity"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Specifies the identity the client presents to the server.
+ The matching secret is found by calling <c>user_lookup_fun</c></p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="client_srp_identity"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Specifies the username and password to use to authenticate
+ to the server.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="sni"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Specify the hostname to be used in TLS Server Name Indication extension.
+ If not specified it will default to the <c>Host</c> argument of <seealso marker="#connect-3">connect/[3,4]</seealso>
+ unless it is of type inet:ipaddress().</p>
+ <p>
+ The <c>HostName</c> will also be used in the hostname verification of the peer certificate using
+ <seealso marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_verify_hostname-2">public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/2</seealso>.
+ </p>
+ <p> The special value <c>disable</c> prevents the Server Name Indication extension from being sent and
+ disables the hostname verification check
+ <seealso marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_verify_hostname-2">public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/2</seealso> </p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="customize_hostname_check"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p> Customizes the hostname verification of the peer certificate, as different protocols that use
+ TLS such as HTTP or LDAP may want to do it differently, for possible options see
+ <seealso marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_verify_hostname-3">public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/3</seealso> </p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="fallback"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p> Send special cipher suite TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV to avoid undesired TLS version downgrade.
+ Defaults to false</p>
+ <warning><p>Note this option is not needed in normal TLS usage and should not be used
+ to implement new clients. But legacy clients that retries connections in the following manner</p>
+
+ <p><c> ssl:connect(Host, Port, [...{versions, ['tlsv2', 'tlsv1.1', 'tlsv1', 'sslv3']}])</c></p>
+ <p><c> ssl:connect(Host, Port, [...{versions, [tlsv1.1', 'tlsv1', 'sslv3']}, {fallback, true}])</c></p>
+ <p><c> ssl:connect(Host, Port, [...{versions, ['tlsv1', 'sslv3']}, {fallback, true}]) </c></p>
+ <p><c> ssl:connect(Host, Port, [...{versions, ['sslv3']}, {fallback, true}]) </c></p>
+
+ <p>may use it to avoid undesired TLS version downgrade. Note that TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV must also
+ be supported by the server for the prevention to work.
+ </p></warning>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="client_signature_algs"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>In addition to the algorithms negotiated by the cipher
suite used for key exchange, payload encryption, message
authentication and pseudo random calculation, the TLS signature
algorithm extension <url
@@ -668,184 +846,226 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
Selected signature algorithm can restrict which hash functions
that may be selected. Default support for {md5, rsa} removed in ssl-8.0
</p>
- </item>
- </taglist>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL OPTION DESCRIPTIONS - SERVER SIDE</title>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
- <p>The following options are server-specific or have a slightly different
- meaning in the server than in the client:</p>
+ <datatype_title>TLS/DTLS OPTION DESCRIPTIONS - SERVER </datatype_title>
- <taglist>
- <tag><c>{cacerts, [public_key:der_encoded()]}</c></tag>
- <item><p>The DER-encoded trusted certificates. If this option
- is supplied it overrides option <c>cacertfile</c>.</p></item>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="server_option"/>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="server_cacerts"/>
+ <desc><p>The DER-encoded trusted certificates. If this option
+ is supplied it overrides option <c>cacertfile</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
- <tag><c>{cacertfile, path()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Path to a file containing PEM-encoded CA
- certificates. The CA certificates are used to build the server
- certificate chain and for client authentication. The CAs are
- also used in the list of acceptable client CAs passed to the
- client when a certificate is requested. Can be omitted if there
- is no need to verify the client and if there are no
- intermediate CAs for the server certificate.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{dh, public_key:der_encoded()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>The DER-encoded Diffie-Hellman parameters. If specified,
- it overrides option <c>dhfile</c>.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{dhfile, path()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Path to a file containing PEM-encoded Diffie Hellman parameters
- to be used by the server if a cipher suite using Diffie Hellman key
- exchange is negotiated. If not specified, default parameters are used.
- </p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{verify, verify_type()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>A server only does x509-path validation in mode <c>verify_peer</c>,
- as it then sends a certificate request to the client
- (this message is not sent if the verify option is <c>verify_none</c>).
- You can then also want to specify option <c>fail_if_no_peer_cert</c>.
- </p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{fail_if_no_peer_cert, boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Used together with <c>{verify, verify_peer}</c> by an SSL server.
- If set to <c>true</c>, the server fails if the client does not have
- a certificate to send, that is, sends an empty certificate. If set to
- <c>false</c>, it fails only if the client sends an invalid
- certificate (an empty certificate is considered valid). Defaults to false.</p>
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>{reuse_sessions, boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Specifies if the server is to agree to reuse sessions
- when requested by the clients. See also option <c>reuse_session</c>.
- </p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{reuse_session, fun(SuggestedSessionId,
- PeerCert, Compression, CipherSuite) -> boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Enables the SSL server to have a local policy
- for deciding if a session is to be reused or not.
- Meaningful only if <c>reuse_sessions</c> is set to <c>true</c>.
- <c>SuggestedSessionId</c> is a <c>binary()</c>, <c>PeerCert</c> is
- a DER-encoded certificate, <c>Compression</c> is an enumeration integer,
- and <c>CipherSuite</c> is of type <c>ciphersuite()</c>.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{alpn_preferred_protocols, [binary()]}</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p>Indicates the server will try to perform Application-Layer
- Protocol Negotiation (ALPN).</p>
-
- <p>The list of protocols is in order of preference. The protocol
- negotiated will be the first in the list that matches one of the
- protocols advertised by the client. If no protocol matches, the
- server will fail the connection with a "no_application_protocol" alert.</p>
-
- <p>The negotiated protocol can be retrieved using the <c>negotiated_protocol/1</c> function.</p>
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>{next_protocols_advertised, Protocols :: [binary()]}</c></tag>
- <item><p>List of protocols to send to the client if the client indicates that
- it supports the Next Protocol extension. The client can select a protocol
- that is not on this list. The list of protocols must not contain an empty
- binary. If the server negotiates a Next Protocol, it can be accessed
- using the <c>negotiated_next_protocol/1</c> method.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{psk_identity, string()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>Specifies the server identity hint, which the server presents to
- the client.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{log_alert, boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>If set to <c>false</c>, error reports are not displayed.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{honor_cipher_order, boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>If set to <c>true</c>, use the server preference for cipher
- selection. If set to <c>false</c> (the default), use the client
- preference.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{sni_hosts, [{hostname(), [ssl_option()]}]}</c></tag>
- <item><p>If the server receives a SNI (Server Name Indication) from the client
- matching a host listed in the <c>sni_hosts</c> option, the specific options for
- that host will override previously specified options.
-
- The option <c>sni_fun</c>, and <c>sni_hosts</c> are mutually exclusive.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{sni_fun, SNIfun::fun()}</c></tag>
- <item><p>If the server receives a SNI (Server Name Indication) from the client,
- the given function will be called to retrieve <c>[ssl_option()]</c> for the indicated server.
- These options will be merged into predefined <c>[ssl_option()]</c>.
-
- The function should be defined as:
- <c>fun(ServerName :: string()) -> [ssl_option()]</c>
- and can be specified as a fun or as named <c>fun module:function/1</c>
-
- The option <c>sni_fun</c>, and <c>sni_hosts</c> are mutually exclusive.</p></item>
-
- <tag><c>{client_renegotiation, boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item>In protocols that support client-initiated renegotiation, the cost
- of resources of such an operation is higher for the server than the
- client. This can act as a vector for denial of service attacks. The SSL
- application already takes measures to counter-act such attempts,
- but client-initiated renegotiation can be strictly disabled by setting
- this option to <c>false</c>. The default value is <c>true</c>.
- Note that disabling renegotiation can result in long-lived connections
- becoming unusable due to limits on the number of messages the underlying
- cipher suite can encipher.
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>{honor_cipher_order, boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item>If true, use the server's preference for cipher selection. If false
- (the default), use the client's preference.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{honor_ecc_order, boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item>If true, use the server's preference for ECC curve selection. If false
- (the default), use the client's preference.
- </item>
-
- <tag><c>{signature_algs, [{hash(), ecdsa | rsa | dsa}]}</c></tag>
- <item><p> The algorithms specified by
- this option will be the ones accepted by the server in a signature algorithm
- negotiation, introduced in TLS-1.2. The algorithms will also be offered to the client if a
- client certificate is requested. For more details see the <seealso marker="#client_signature_algs">corresponding client option</seealso>.
- </p> </item>
-
- <tag><c>{v2_hello_compatible, boolean()}</c></tag>
- <item>If true, the server accepts clients that send hello messages on SSL-2.0 format but offers
- supported SSL/TLS versions. Defaults to false, that is the server will not interoperate with clients that
- offers SSL-2.0.
- </item>
-
- </taglist>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>General</title>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="server_cafile"/>
+ <desc><p>Path to a file containing PEM-encoded CA
+ certificates. The CA certificates are used to build the server
+ certificate chain and for client authentication. The CAs are
+ also used in the list of acceptable client CAs passed to the
+ client when a certificate is requested. Can be omitted if
+ there is no need to verify the client and if there are no
+ intermediate CAs for the server certificate.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="dh_der"/>
+ <desc><p>The DER-encoded Diffie-Hellman parameters. If
+ specified, it overrides option <c>dhfile</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="dh_file"/>
+ <desc><p>Path to a file containing PEM-encoded Diffie Hellman
+ parameters to be used by the server if a cipher suite using
+ Diffie Hellman key exchange is negotiated. If not specified,
+ default parameters are used.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
- <p>When an SSL socket is in active mode (the default), data from the
- socket is delivered to the owner of the socket in the form of
- messages:</p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item><p><c>{ssl, Socket, Data}</c></p></item>
- <item><p><c>{ssl_closed, Socket}</c></p></item>
- <item><p><c>{ssl_error, Socket, Reason}</c></p></item>
- </list>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="server_verify_type"/>
+ <desc><p>A server only does x509-path validation in mode
+ <c>verify_peer</c>, as it then sends a certificate request to
+ the client (this message is not sent if the verify option is
+ <c>verify_none</c>). You can then also want to specify option
+ <c>fail_if_no_peer_cert</c>. </p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="fail_if_no_peer_cert"/>
+ <desc><p>Used together with <c>{verify, verify_peer}</c> by an
+ TLS/DTLS server. If set to <c>true</c>, the server fails if
+ the client does not have a certificate to send, that is, sends
+ an empty certificate. If set to <c>false</c>, it fails only if
+ the client sends an invalid certificate (an empty certificate
+ is considered valid). Defaults to false.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="server_reuse_sessions"/>
+ <desc><p>The boolean value true specifies that the server will
+ agree to reuse sessions. Setting it to false will result in an empty
+ session table, that is no sessions will be reused.
+ See also option <seealso marker="#type-server_reuse_session">reuse_session</seealso>
+ </p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="server_reuse_session"/>
+ <desc><p>Enables the TLS/DTLS server to have a local policy
+ for deciding if a session is to be reused or not. Meaningful
+ only if <c>reuse_sessions</c> is set to <c>true</c>.
+ <c>SuggestedSessionId</c> is a <c>binary()</c>,
+ <c>PeerCert</c> is a DER-encoded certificate,
+ <c>Compression</c> is an enumeration integer, and
+ <c>CipherSuite</c> is of type <c>ciphersuite()</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="server_alpn"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Indicates the server will try to perform
+ Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN).</p>
+
+ <p>The list of protocols is in order of preference. The
+ protocol negotiated will be the first in the list that
+ matches one of the protocols advertised by the client. If no
+ protocol matches, the server will fail the connection with a
+ "no_application_protocol" alert.</p>
+
+ <p>The negotiated protocol can be retrieved using the
+ <c>negotiated_protocol/1</c> function.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="server_next_protocol"/>
+ <desc><p>List of protocols to send to the client if the client
+ indicates that it supports the Next Protocol extension. The
+ client can select a protocol that is not on this list. The
+ list of protocols must not contain an empty binary. If the
+ server negotiates a Next Protocol, it can be accessed using
+ the <c>negotiated_next_protocol/1</c> method.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="server_psk_identity"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Specifies the server identity hint, which the server presents to
+ the client.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="honor_cipher_order"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>If set to <c>true</c>, use the server preference for cipher
+ selection. If set to <c>false</c> (the default), use the client
+ preference.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="sni_hosts"/>
+ <desc><p>If the server receives a SNI (Server Name Indication) from the client
+ matching a host listed in the <c>sni_hosts</c> option, the specific options for
+ that host will override previously specified options.
+
+ The option <c>sni_fun</c>, and <c>sni_hosts</c> are mutually exclusive.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="sni_fun"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>If the server receives a SNI (Server Name Indication)
+ from the client, the given function will be called to
+ retrieve <seealso marker="#type-server_option">[server_option()] </seealso> for the indicated server.
+ These options will be merged into predefined
+ <seealso marker="#type-server_option">[server_option()] </seealso> list.
+
+ The function should be defined as:
+ fun(ServerName :: string()) -> <seealso marker="#type-server_option">[server_option()] </seealso>
+ and can be specified as a fun or as named <c>fun module:function/1</c>
+
+ The option <c>sni_fun</c>, and <c>sni_hosts</c> are mutually exclusive.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="client_renegotiation"/>
+ <desc><p>In protocols that support client-initiated
+ renegotiation, the cost of resources of such an operation is
+ higher for the server than the client. This can act as a
+ vector for denial of service attacks. The SSL application
+ already takes measures to counter-act such attempts, but
+ client-initiated renegotiation can be strictly disabled by
+ setting this option to <c>false</c>. The default value is
+ <c>true</c>. Note that disabling renegotiation can result in
+ long-lived connections becoming unusable due to limits on the
+ number of messages the underlying cipher suite can
+ encipher.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="honor_cipher_order"/>
+ <desc><p>If true, use the server's preference for cipher
+ selection. If false (the default), use the client's
+ preference.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="honor_ecc_order"/>
+ <desc><p>If true, use the server's preference for ECC curve
+ selection. If false (the default), use the client's
+ preference.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="server_signature_algs"/>
+ <desc><p> The algorithms specified by this option will be the
+ ones accepted by the server in a signature algorithm
+ negotiation, introduced in TLS-1.2. The algorithms will also
+ be offered to the client if a client certificate is
+ requested. For more details see the <seealso
+ marker="#type-client_signature_algs">corresponding client
+ option</seealso>.
+ </p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+ </datatypes>
+
+<!--
+ ================================================================
+ = Function definitions =
+ ================================================================
+-->
- <p>A <c>Timeout</c> argument specifies a time-out in milliseconds. The
- default value for argument <c>Timeout</c> is <c>infinity</c>.</p>
- </section>
-
<funcs>
<func>
- <name>append_cipher_suites(Deferred, Suites) -> ciphers() </name>
+ <name name="append_cipher_suites" arity="2" since="OTP 20.3"/>
<fsummary></fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Deferred = ciphers() | cipher_filters() </v>
- <v>Suites = ciphers() </v>
- </type>
<desc><p>Make <c>Deferred</c> suites become the least preferred
suites, that is put them at the end of the cipher suite list
<c>Suites</c> after removing them from <c>Suites</c> if
@@ -856,54 +1076,37 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>cipher_suites() -></name>
- <name>cipher_suites(Type) -> old_ciphers()</name>
+ <name name="cipher_suites" arity="0" since="OTP R14B"/>
+ <name name="cipher_suites" arity="1" since="OTP R14B"/>
<fsummary>Returns a list of supported cipher suites.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Type = erlang | openssl | all</v>
- </type>
<desc>
- <p>Returns a list of supported cipher suites.
- This function will become deprecated in OTP 21, and replaced
- by <seealso marker="#cipher_suites-2">ssl:cipher-suites/2</seealso>
- <c>cipher_suites()</c> is equivalent to <c>cipher_suites(erlang).</c>
- Type <c>openssl</c> is provided for backwards compatibility with the
- old SSL, which used OpenSSL. <c>cipher_suites(all)</c> returns
- all available cipher suites. The cipher suites not present
- in <c>cipher_suites(erlang)</c> but included in
- <c>cipher_suites(all)</c> are not used unless explicitly configured
- by the user.</p>
+ <p>Deprecated in OTP 21, use <seealso marker="#cipher_suites-2">cipher_suites/2</seealso> instead.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>cipher_suites(Supported, Version) -> ciphers()</name>
+ <name name="cipher_suites" arity="2" since="OTP 20.3"/>
<fsummary>Returns a list of all default or
all supported cipher suites.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v> Supported = default | all | anonymous </v>
- <v> Version = protocol_version() </v>
- </type>
- <desc><p>Returns all default or all supported (except anonymous), or all anonymous cipher suites for a
+ <desc><p>Returns all default or all supported (except anonymous),
+ or all anonymous cipher suites for a
TLS version</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>eccs() -></name>
- <name>eccs(protocol_version()) -> [named_curve()]</name>
+ <name name="eccs" arity="0" since="OTP 19.2"/>
+ <name name="eccs" arity="1" since="OTP 19.2"/>
<fsummary>Returns a list of supported ECCs.</fsummary>
-
<desc><p>Returns a list of supported ECCs. <c>eccs()</c>
is equivalent to calling <c>eccs(Protocol)</c> with all
supported protocols and then deduplicating the output.</p>
</desc>
</func>
-
+
<func>
- <name>clear_pem_cache() -> ok </name>
+ <name name="clear_pem_cache" arity="0" since="OTP 17.5"/>
<fsummary> Clears the pem cache</fsummary>
-
<desc><p>PEM files, used by ssl API-functions, are cached. The
cache is regularly checked to see if any cache entries should be
invalidated, however this function provides a way to
@@ -913,50 +1116,51 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>connect(Socket, SslOptions) -> </name>
- <name>connect(Socket, SslOptions, Timeout) -> {ok, SslSocket}
- | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name name="connect" arity="2" since="OTP R14B"/>
+ <name name="connect" arity="3" clause_i="1" since=""/>
<fsummary>Upgrades a <c>gen_tcp</c>, or
- equivalent, connected socket to an SSL socket.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = socket()</v>
- <v>SslOptions = [ssl_option()]</v>
- <v>Timeout = integer() | infinity</v>
- <v>SslSocket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- </type>
+ equivalent, connected socket to an TLS socket.</fsummary>
<desc><p>Upgrades a <c>gen_tcp</c>, or equivalent,
- connected socket to an SSL socket, that is, performs the
- client-side ssl handshake.</p>
+ connected socket to an TLS socket, that is, performs the
+ client-side TLS handshake.</p>
- <note><p>If the option <c>verify</c> is set to <c>verify_peer</c>
- the option <c>server_name_indication</c> shall also be specified,
- if it is not no Server Name Indication extension will be sent,
- and <seealso marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_verify_hostname-2">public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/2</seealso>
- will be called with the IP-address of the connection as <c>ReferenceID</c>, which is proably not what you want.</p></note>
+ <note><p>If the option <c>verify</c> is set to
+ <c>verify_peer</c> the option <c>server_name_indication</c>
+ shall also be specified, if it is not no Server Name
+ Indication extension will be sent, and <seealso
+ marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_verify_hostname-2">public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/2</seealso>
+ will be called with the IP-address of the connection as
+ <c>ReferenceID</c>, which is proably not what you want.</p>
+ </note>
+
+ <p> If the option <c>{handshake, hello}</c> is used the
+ handshake is paused after receiving the server hello message
+ and the success response is <c>{ok, SslSocket, Ext}</c>
+ instead of <c>{ok, SslSocket}</c>. Thereafter the handshake
+ is continued or canceled by calling <seealso
+ marker="#handshake_continue-3">
+ <c>handshake_continue/3</c></seealso> or <seealso
+ marker="#handshake_cancel-1"><c>handshake_cancel/1</c></seealso>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p> If the option <c>active</c> is set to <c>once</c>, <c>true</c> or an integer value,
+ the process owning the sslsocket will receive messages of type
+ <seealso marker="#type-active_msgs"> active_msgs() </seealso>
+ </p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>connect(Host, Port, Options) -></name>
- <name>connect(Host, Port, Options, Timeout) ->
- {ok, SslSocket} | {error, Reason}</name>
- <fsummary>Opens an SSL connection to <c>Host</c>, <c>Port</c>.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Host = host()</v>
- <v>Port = integer()</v>
- <v>Options = [option()]</v>
- <v>Timeout = integer() | infinity</v>
- <v>SslSocket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- </type>
- <desc><p>Opens an SSL connection to <c>Host</c>, <c>Port</c>.</p>
+ <name since="" name="connect" arity="3" clause_i="2"/>
+ <name since="" name="connect" arity="4"/>
+ <fsummary>Opens an TLS/DTLS connection to <c>Host</c>, <c>Port</c>.</fsummary>
+ <desc><p>Opens an TLS/DTLS connection to <c>Host</c>, <c>Port</c>.</p>
<p> When the option <c>verify</c> is set to <c>verify_peer</c> the check
<seealso marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_verify_hostname-2">public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/2</seealso>
will be performed in addition to the usual x509-path validation checks. If the check fails the error {bad_cert, hostname_check_failed} will
- be propagated to the path validation fun <seealso marker="#verify_fun">verify_fun</seealso>, where it is possible to do customized
- checks by using the full possibilitis of the <seealso marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_verify_hostname-2">public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/2</seealso> API.
+ be propagated to the path validation fun <seealso marker="#type-custom_verify">verify_fun</seealso>, where it is possible to do customized
+ checks by using the full possibilities of the <seealso marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_verify_hostname-3">public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/3</seealso> API.
When the option <c>server_name_indication</c> is provided, its value (the DNS name) will be used as <c>ReferenceID</c>
to <seealso marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_verify_hostname-2">public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/2</seealso>.
@@ -967,29 +1171,35 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
<c>dns_id</c> will be assumed with a fallback to <c>ip</c> if that fails. </p>
<note><p>According to good practices certificates should not use IP-addresses as "server names". It would
be very surprising if this happen outside a closed network. </p></note>
+
+
+ <p> If the option <c>{handshake, hello}</c> is used the
+ handshake is paused after receiving the server hello message
+ and the success response is <c>{ok, SslSocket, Ext}</c>
+ instead of <c>{ok, SslSocket}</c>. Thereafter the handshake is continued or
+ canceled by calling <seealso marker="#handshake_continue-3">
+ <c>handshake_continue/3</c></seealso> or <seealso
+ marker="#handshake_cancel-1"><c>handshake_cancel/1</c></seealso>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p> If the option <c>active</c> is set to <c>once</c>, <c>true</c> or an integer value,
+ the process owning the sslsocket will receive messages of type
+ <seealso marker="#type-active_msgs"> active_msgs() </seealso>
+ </p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>close(SslSocket) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
- <fsummary>Closes an SSL connection.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>SslSocket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- </type>
- <desc><p>Closes an SSL connection.</p>
+ <name since="" name="close" arity="1" />
+ <fsummary>Closes an TLS/DTLS connection.</fsummary>
+ <desc><p>Closes an TLS/DTLS connection.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>close(SslSocket, How) -> ok | {ok, port()} | {error, Reason}</name>
- <fsummary>Closes an SSL connection.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>SslSocket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>How = timeout() | {NewController::pid(), timeout()} </v>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- </type>
- <desc><p>Closes or downgrades an SSL connection. In the latter case the transport
+ <name since="OTP 18.1" name="close" arity="2"/>
+ <fsummary>Closes an TLS connection.</fsummary>
+ <desc><p>Closes or downgrades an TLS connection. In the latter case the transport
connection will be handed over to the <c>NewController</c> process after receiving
the TLS close alert from the peer. The returned transport socket will have
the following options set: <c>[{active, false}, {packet, 0}, {mode, binary}]</c></p>
@@ -997,15 +1207,9 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>controlling_process(SslSocket, NewOwner) ->
- ok | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="" name="controlling_process" arity="2" />
<fsummary>Assigns a new controlling process to the
- SSL socket.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>SslSocket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>NewOwner = pid()</v>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- </type>
+ TLS/DTLS socket.</fsummary>
<desc><p>Assigns a new controlling process to the SSL socket. A
controlling process is the owner of an SSL socket, and receives
all messages from the socket.</p>
@@ -1013,50 +1217,36 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>connection_information(SslSocket) ->
- {ok, Result} | {error, Reason} </name>
+ <name since="OTP 18.0" name="connection_information" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Returns all the connection information.
</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Item = protocol | cipher_suite | sni_hostname | ecc | session_id | atom()</v>
- <d>Meaningful atoms, not specified above, are the ssl option names.</d>
- <v>Result = [{Item::atom(), Value::term()}]</v>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- </type>
<desc><p>Returns the most relevant information about the connection, ssl options that
are undefined will be filtered out. Note that values that affect the security of the
connection will only be returned if explicitly requested by connection_information/2.</p>
+ <note><p>The legacy <c>Item = cipher_suite</c> is still supported
+ and returns the cipher suite on its (undocumented) legacy format.
+ It should be replaced by <c>selected_cipher_suite</c>.</p></note>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>connection_information(SslSocket, Items) ->
- {ok, Result} | {error, Reason} </name>
+ <name since="OTP 18.0" name="connection_information" arity="2"/>
<fsummary>Returns the requested connection information.
</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Items = [Item]</v>
- <v>Item = protocol | cipher_suite | sni_hostname | ecc | session_id | client_random
- | server_random | master_secret | atom()</v>
- <d>Note that client_random, server_random and master_secret are values
- that affect the security of connection. Meaningful atoms, not specified above, are the ssl option names.</d>
- <v>Result = [{Item::atom(), Value::term()}]</v>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- </type>
<desc><p>Returns the requested information items about the connection,
if they are defined.</p>
+ <p>Note that client_random, server_random and master_secret are values
+ that affect the security of connection. Meaningful atoms, not specified
+ above, are the ssl option names.</p>
+
<note><p>If only undefined options are requested the
resulting list can be empty.</p></note>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>filter_cipher_suites(Suites, Filters) -> ciphers()</name>
+ <name since="OTP 20.3" name="filter_cipher_suites" arity="2" />
<fsummary></fsummary>
- <type>
- <v> Suites = ciphers()</v>
- <v> Filters = cipher_filters()</v>
- </type>
<desc><p>Removes cipher suites if any of the filter functions
returns false for any part of the cipher suite. This function
also calls default filter functions to make sure the cipher
@@ -1066,24 +1256,16 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>format_error(Reason) -> string()</name>
+ <name since="" name="format_error" arity="1" />
<fsummary>Returns an error string.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>Presents the error returned by an SSL function as a printable string.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>getopts(Socket, OptionNames) ->
- {ok, [socketoption()]} | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="" name="getopts" arity="2" />
<fsummary>Gets the values of the specified options.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>OptionNames = [atom()]</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>Gets the values of the specified socket options.
</p>
@@ -1091,16 +1273,9 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>getstat(Socket) ->
- {ok, OptionValues} | {error, inet:posix()}</name>
- <name>getstat(Socket, OptionNames) ->
- {ok, OptionValues} | {error, inet:posix()}</name>
+ <name since="OTP 19.0" name="getstat" arity="1" />
+ <name since="OTP 19.0" name="getstat" arity="2" />
<fsummary>Get one or more statistic options for a socket</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>OptionNames = [atom()]</v>
- <v>OptionValues = [{inet:stat_option(), integer()}]</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>Gets one or more statistic options for the underlying TCP socket.</p>
<p>See inet:getstat/2 for statistic options description.</p>
@@ -1108,26 +1283,86 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>listen(Port, Options) ->
- {ok, ListenSocket} | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="OTP 21.0" name="handshake" arity="1" />
+ <name since="OTP 21.0" name="handshake" arity="2" clause_i="1" />
+ <fsummary>Performs server-side SSL/TLS handshake.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Performs the SSL/TLS/DTLS server-side handshake.</p>
+ <p>Returns a new TLS/DTLS socket if the handshake is successful.</p>
+
+ <p> If the option <c>active</c> is set to <c>once</c>, <c>true</c> or an integer value,
+ the process owning the sslsocket will receive messages of type
+ <seealso marker="#type-active_msgs"> active_msgs() </seealso>
+ </p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
+ <name since="OTP 21.0" name="handshake" arity="2" clause_i="2" />
+ <name since="OTP 21.0" name="handshake" arity="3" />
+ <fsummary>Performs server-side SSL/TLS/DTLS handshake.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>If <c>Socket</c> is a ordinary <c>socket()</c>: upgrades a <c>gen_tcp</c>,
+ or equivalent, socket to an SSL socket, that is, performs
+ the SSL/TLS server-side handshake and returns a TLS socket.</p>
+
+ <warning><p>The <c>Socket</c> shall be in passive mode ({active,
+ false}) before calling this function or else the behavior of this function
+ is undefined.
+ </p></warning>
+
+ <p>If <c>Socket</c> is an
+ <seealso marker="#type-sslsocket"> sslsocket() </seealso>: provides extra SSL/TLS/DTLS
+ options to those specified in
+ <seealso marker="#listen-2">listen/2 </seealso> and then performs
+ the SSL/TLS/DTLS handshake. Returns a new TLS/DTLS socket if the handshake is successful.</p>
+
+ <p>
+ If option <c>{handshake, hello}</c> is specified the handshake is
+ paused after receiving the client hello message and the
+ success response is <c>{ok, SslSocket, Ext}</c> instead of <c>{ok,
+ SslSocket}</c>. Thereafter the handshake is continued or
+ canceled by calling <seealso marker="#handshake_continue-3">
+ <c>handshake_continue/3</c></seealso> or <seealso
+ marker="#handshake_cancel-1"><c>handshake_cancel/1</c></seealso>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p> If the option <c>active</c> is set to <c>once</c>, <c>true</c> or an integer value,
+ the process owning the sslsocket will receive messages of type
+ <seealso marker="#type-active_msgs"> active_msgs() </seealso>
+ </p>
+
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
+ <name since="OTP 21.0" name="handshake_cancel" arity="1" />
+ <fsummary>Cancel handshake with a fatal alert</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Cancel the handshake with a fatal <c>USER_CANCELED</c> alert.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
+ <name since="OTP 21.0" name="handshake_continue" arity="2" />
+ <name since="OTP 21.0" name="handshake_continue" arity="3" />
+ <fsummary>Continue the SSL/TLS handshake.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Continue the SSL/TLS handshake possiby with new, additional or changed options.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
+ <name since="" name="listen" arity="2" />
<fsummary>Creates an SSL listen socket.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Port = integer()</v>
- <v>Options = options()</v>
- <v>ListenSocket = sslsocket()</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>Creates an SSL listen socket.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>negotiated_protocol(Socket) -> {ok, Protocol} | {error, protocol_not_negotiated}</name>
+ <name since="OTP 18.0" name="negotiated_protocol" arity="1" />
<fsummary>Returns the protocol negotiated through ALPN or NPN extensions.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Protocol = binary()</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>
Returns the protocol negotiated through ALPN or NPN extensions.
@@ -1136,40 +1371,27 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>peercert(Socket) -> {ok, Cert} | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="" name="peercert" arity="1" />
<fsummary>Returns the peer certificate.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Cert = binary()</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>The peer certificate is returned as a DER-encoded binary.
The certificate can be decoded with
- <c>public_key:pkix_decode_cert/2</c>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="public_key:public_key#pkix_decode_cert-2">public_key:pkix_decode_cert/2</seealso>
+ </p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>peername(Socket) -> {ok, {Address, Port}} |
- {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="" name="peername" arity="1" />
<fsummary>Returns the peer address and port.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Address = ipaddress()</v>
- <v>Port = integer()</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>Returns the address and port number of the peer.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>prepend_cipher_suites(Preferred, Suites) -> ciphers()</name>
+ <name since="OTP 20.3" name="prepend_cipher_suites" arity="2" />
<fsummary></fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Preferred = ciphers() | cipher_filters() </v>
- <v>Suites = ciphers() </v>
- </type>
<desc><p>Make <c>Preferred</c> suites become the most preferred
suites that is put them at the head of the cipher suite list
<c>Suites</c> after removing them from <c>Suites</c> if
@@ -1180,36 +1402,27 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>prf(Socket, Secret, Label, Seed, WantedLength) -> {ok, binary()} | {error, reason()}</name>
+ <name since="OTP R15B01" name="prf" arity="5" />
<fsummary>Uses a session Pseudo-Random Function to generate key material.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Secret = binary() | master_secret</v>
- <v>Label = binary()</v>
- <v>Seed = [binary() | prf_random()]</v>
- <v>WantedLength = non_neg_integer()</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>Uses the Pseudo-Random Function (PRF) of a TLS session to generate
extra key material. It either takes user-generated values for
<c>Secret</c> and <c>Seed</c> or atoms directing it to use a specific
value from the session security parameters.</p>
- <p>Can only be used with TLS connections; <c>{error, undefined}</c>
+ <p>Can only be used with TLS/DTLS connections; <c>{error, undefined}</c>
is returned for SSLv3 connections.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>recv(Socket, Length) -> </name>
- <name>recv(Socket, Length, Timeout) -> {ok, Data} | {error,
- Reason}</name>
+ <name since="" name="recv" arity="2" />
+ <name since="" name="recv" arity="3" />
<fsummary>Receives data on a socket.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Length = integer()</v>
- <v>Timeout = integer()</v>
- <v>Data = [char()] | binary()</v>
- </type>
+ <type_desc variable="HttpPacket">See the description of
+ <c>HttpPacket</c> in
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#decode_packet/3"><c>erlang:decode_packet/3</c></seealso>
+ in ERTS.
+ </type_desc>
<desc>
<p>Receives a packet from a socket in passive
mode. A closed socket is indicated by return value
@@ -1227,11 +1440,8 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>renegotiate(Socket) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="OTP R14B" name="renegotiate" arity="1" />
<fsummary>Initiates a new handshake.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- </type>
<desc><p>Initiates a new handshake. A notable return value is
<c>{error, renegotiation_rejected}</c> indicating that the peer
refused to go through with the renegotiation, but the connection
@@ -1240,40 +1450,27 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>send(Socket, Data) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="" name="send" arity="2" />
<fsummary>Writes data to a socket.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Data = iodata()</v>
- </type>
<desc>
- <p>Writes <c>Data</c> to <c>Socket</c>.</p>
+ <p>Writes <c>Data</c> to <c>SslSocket</c>.</p>
<p>A notable return value is <c>{error, closed}</c> indicating that
the socket is closed.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>setopts(Socket, Options) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="" name="setopts" arity="2" />
<fsummary>Sets socket options.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Options = [socketoption]()</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>Sets options according to <c>Options</c> for socket
- <c>Socket</c>.</p>
+ <c>SslSocket</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>shutdown(Socket, How) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="OTP R14B" name="shutdown" arity="2" />
<fsummary>Immediately closes a socket.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>How = read | write | read_write</v>
- <v>Reason = reason()</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>Immediately closes a socket in one or two directions.</p>
<p><c>How == write</c> means closing the socket for writing,
@@ -1285,72 +1482,37 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>ssl_accept(Socket) -> </name>
- <name>ssl_accept(Socket, Timeout) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="" name="ssl_accept" arity="1" />
+ <name since="" name="ssl_accept" arity="2" />
<fsummary>Performs server-side SSL/TLS handshake.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Timeout = integer()</v>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- </type>
<desc>
- <p>Performs the SSL/TLS server-side handshake.</p>
- <p><c>Socket</c> is a socket as returned by
- <seealso marker="#transport_accept-2">ssl:transport_accept/[1,2]</seealso>
- </p>
+ <p>Deprecated in OTP 21, use <seealso marker="#handshake-1">handshake/[1,2]</seealso> instead.</p>
+ <note><p>handshake/[1,2] always returns a new socket.</p></note>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>ssl_accept(Socket, SslOptions) -> </name>
- <name>ssl_accept(Socket, SslOptions, Timeout) -> {ok, Socket} | ok | {error, Reason}</name>
- <fsummary>Performs server-side SSL/TLS handshake.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = socket() | sslsocket() </v>
- <v>SslOptions = [ssl_option()]</v>
- <v>Timeout = integer()</v>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- </type>
+ <name since="OTP R14B" name="ssl_accept" arity="3" />
+ <fsummary>Performs server-side SSL/TLS/DTLS handshake.</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>If <c>Socket</c> is a <c>socket()</c>: upgrades a <c>gen_tcp</c>,
- or equivalent, socket to an SSL socket, that is, performs
- the SSL/TLS server-side handshake and returns the SSL socket.</p>
-
- <warning><p>The listen socket is to be in mode <c>{active, false}</c>
- before telling the client that the server is ready to upgrade
- by calling this function, else the upgrade succeeds or does not
- succeed depending on timing.</p></warning>
-
- <p>If <c>Socket</c> is an <c>sslsocket()</c>: provides extra SSL/TLS
- options to those specified in
- <seealso marker="#listen-2">ssl:listen/2 </seealso> and then performs
- the SSL/TLS handshake.
- </p>
+ <p>Deprecated in OTP 21, use <seealso marker="#handshake-3">handshake/[2,3]</seealso> instead.</p>
+ <note><p>handshake/[2,3] always returns a new socket.</p></note>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>sockname(Socket) -> {ok, {Address, Port}} |
- {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="" name="sockname" arity="1" />
<fsummary>Returns the local address and port.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Address = ipaddress()</v>
- <v>Port = integer()</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>Returns the local address and port number of socket
- <c>Socket</c>.</p>
+ <c>SslSocket</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name>start() -> </name>
- <name>start(Type) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="OTP R14B" name="start" arity="0" />
+ <name since="OTP R14B">start(Type) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
<fsummary>Starts the SSL application.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Type = permanent | transient | temporary</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>Starts the SSL application. Default type
is <c>temporary</c>.</p>
@@ -1358,7 +1520,7 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>stop() -> ok </name>
+ <name since="OTP R14B" name="stop" arity="0" />
<fsummary>Stops the SSL application.</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Stops the SSL application.</p>
@@ -1366,32 +1528,34 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>transport_accept(ListenSocket) -></name>
- <name>transport_accept(ListenSocket, Timeout) ->
- {ok, NewSocket} | {error, Reason}</name>
+ <name since="OTP 21.0" name="suite_to_str" arity="1" clause_i="1" />
+ <fsummary>Returns the string representation of a cipher suite.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Returns the string representation of a cipher suite.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
+ <name since="" name="transport_accept" arity="1" />
+ <name since="" name="transport_accept" arity="2" />
<fsummary>Accepts an incoming connection and
prepares for <c>ssl_accept</c>.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>ListenSocket = NewSocket = sslsocket()</v>
- <v>Timeout = integer()</v>
- <v>Reason = reason()</v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>Accepts an incoming connection request on a listen socket.
<c>ListenSocket</c> must be a socket returned from
- <seealso marker="#listen-2"> ssl:listen/2</seealso>.
+ <seealso marker="#listen-2"> listen/2</seealso>.
The socket returned is to be passed to
- <seealso marker="#ssl_accept-2"> ssl:ssl_accept[2,3]</seealso>
+ <seealso marker="#handshake-2"> handshake/[2,3]</seealso>
to complete handshaking, that is,
- establishing the SSL/TLS connection.</p>
+ establishing the SSL/TLS/DTLS connection.</p>
<warning>
- <p>The socket returned can only be used with
- <seealso marker="#ssl_accept-2"> ssl:ssl_accept[2,3]</seealso>.
- No traffic can be sent or received before that call.</p>
+ <p>Most API functions require that the TLS/DTLS
+ connection is established to work as expected.
+ </p>
</warning>
<p>The accepted socket inherits the options set for
<c>ListenSocket</c> in
- <seealso marker="#listen-2"> ssl:listen/2</seealso>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="#listen-2"> listen/2</seealso>.</p>
<p>The default
value for <c>Timeout</c> is <c>infinity</c>. If
<c>Timeout</c> is specified and no connection is accepted
@@ -1401,12 +1565,9 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
- <name>versions() -> [versions_info()]</name>
+ <name since="OTP R14B" name="versions" arity="0" />
<fsummary>Returns version information relevant for the
SSL application.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>versions_info() = {app_vsn, string()} | {supported | available, [protocol_version()] </v>
- </type>
<desc>
<p>Returns version information relevant for the SSL
application.</p>
@@ -1415,19 +1576,35 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
<item>The application version of the SSL application.</item>
<tag><c>supported</c></tag>
- <item>TLS/SSL versions supported by default.
+ <item>SSL/TLS versions supported by default.
Overridden by a version option on
<seealso marker="#connect-2"> connect/[2,3,4]</seealso>,
<seealso marker="#listen-2"> listen/2</seealso>, and <seealso
marker="#ssl_accept-2">ssl_accept/[1,2,3]</seealso>.
- For the negotiated TLS/SSL version, see <seealso
- marker="#connection_information-1">ssl:connection_information/1
+ For the negotiated SSL/TLS version, see <seealso
+ marker="#connection_information-1">connection_information/1
</seealso>.</item>
-
+
+ <tag><c>supported_dtls</c></tag>
+ <item>DTLS versions supported by default.
+ Overridden by a version option on
+ <seealso marker="#connect-2"> connect/[2,3,4]</seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="#listen-2"> listen/2</seealso>, and <seealso
+ marker="#ssl_accept-2">ssl_accept/[1,2,3]</seealso>.
+ For the negotiated DTLS version, see <seealso
+ marker="#connection_information-1">connection_information/1
+ </seealso>.</item>
+
<tag><c>available</c></tag>
- <item>All TLS/SSL versions supported by the SSL application.
+ <item>All SSL/TLS versions supported by the SSL application.
TLS 1.2 requires sufficient support from the Crypto
application.</item>
+
+ <tag><c>available_dtls</c></tag>
+ <item>All DTLS versions supported by the SSL application.
+ DTLS 1.2 requires sufficient support from the Crypto
+ application.</item>
+
</taglist>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -1438,6 +1615,7 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<p><seealso marker="kernel:inet">inet(3)</seealso> and
<seealso marker="kernel:gen_tcp">gen_tcp(3)</seealso>
+ <seealso marker="kernel:gen_udp">gen_udp(3)</seealso>
</p>
</section>