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diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml index fac2053532..2ba6f48611 100644 --- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml +++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml @@ -22,38 +22,11 @@ </legalnotice> <title>ssl</title> - <prepared>Peter Högfeldt</prepared> - <responsible>Peter Högfeldt</responsible> - <docno></docno> - <approved>Peter Högfeldt</approved> - <checked>Peter Högfeldt</checked> - <date>2005-03-10</date> - <rev>E</rev> <file>ssl_app.sgml</file> </header> <app>ssl</app> - <appsummary>The SSL Application</appsummary> - <description> - <p>The Secure Socket Layer (SSL) application provides secure - socket communication over TCP/IP. Note that this documentation - is mainly valid for the old ssl implementation and will - be replaced in a future release. - </p> - </description> - - <section> - <title>Warning</title> - <p>In previous versions of Erlang/OTP SSL it was advised, as a - work-around, to set the operating system environment variable - <c>SSL_CERT_FILE</c> to point at a file containing CA - certificates. That variable is no longer needed, and is not - recognised by Erlang/OTP SSL any more. - </p> - <p>However, the OpenSSL package does interpret that environment - variable. Hence a setting of that variable might have - unpredictable effects on the Erlang/OTP SSL application. It is - therefore adviced to not used that environment variable at all.</p> - </section> + <appsummary>The SSL application provides secure communication over + sockets.</appsummary> <section> <title>Environment</title> @@ -63,115 +36,43 @@ </p> <p>Note that the environment parameters can be set on the command line, for instance,</p> - <p><c>erl ... -ssl protocol_version '[sslv2,sslv3]' ...</c>. + <p><c>erl ... -ssl protocol_version '[sslv3, tlsv1]' ...</c>. </p> <taglist> - <tag><c><![CDATA[ephemeral_rsa = true | false <optional>]]></c></tag> + <tag><c><![CDATA[protocol_version = [sslv3|tlsv1] <optional>]]></c>.</tag> <item> - <p>Enables all SSL servers (those that listen and accept) - to use ephemeral RSA key generation when a clients connect with - weak handshake cipher specifications, that need equally weak - ciphers from the server (i.e. obsolete restrictions on export - ciphers). Default is <c>false</c>. - </p> + <p>Protocol that will be supported by started clients and + servers. If this option is not set it will default to all + protocols currently supported by the erlang ssl application. + Note that this option may be overridden by the version option + to ssl:connect/[2,3] and ssl:listen/2. + </p> </item> - <tag><c><![CDATA[debug = true | false <optional>]]></c></tag> - <item> - <p>Causes debug information to be written to standard - output. Default is <c>false</c>. - </p> - </item> - <tag><c><![CDATA[debugdir = path() | false <optional>]]></c></tag> - <item> - <p>Causes debug information output controlled by <c>debug</c> - and <c>msgdebug</c> to be printed to a file named - <c><![CDATA[ssl_esock.<pid>.log]]></c> in the directory specified by - <c>debugdir</c>, where <c><![CDATA[<pid>]]></c> is the operating system - specific textual representation of the process identifier - of the external port program of the SSL application. Default - is <c>false</c>, i.e. no log file is produced. - </p> - </item> - <tag><c><![CDATA[msgdebug = true | false <optional>]]></c></tag> - <item> - <p>Sets <c>debug = true</c> and causes also the contents - of low level messages to be printed to standard output. - Default is <c>false</c>. - </p> - </item> - <tag><c><![CDATA[port_program = string() | false <optional>]]></c></tag> - <item> - <p>Name of port program. The default is <c>ssl_esock</c>. - </p> - </item> - <tag><c><![CDATA[protocol_version = [sslv2|sslv3|tlsv1] <optional>]]></c>.</tag> + + <tag><c><![CDATA[session_lifetime = integer() <optional>]]></c></tag> <item> - <p>Name of protocols to use. If this option is not set, - all protocols are assumed, i.e. the default value is - <c>[sslv2, sslv3, tlsv1]</c>. - </p> + <p>The lifetime of session data in seconds. + </p> </item> - <tag><c><![CDATA[proxylsport = integer() | false <optional>]]></c></tag> + + <tag><c><![CDATA[session_cb = atom() <optional>]]></c></tag> <item> - <p>Define the port number of the listen port of the - SSL port program. Almost never is this option needed. + <p> + Name of session cache callback module that implements + the ssl_session_cache_api behavior, defaults to + ssl_session_cache.erl. </p> </item> - <tag><c><![CDATA[proxylsbacklog = integer() | false <optional>]]></c></tag> + + <tag><c><![CDATA[session_cb_init_args = list() <optional>]]></c></tag> <item> - <p>Set the listen queue size of the listen port of the - SSL port program. The default is 128. - </p> + <p> + List of arguments to the init function in session cache + callback module, defaults to []. + </p> </item> - </taglist> - </section> - - <section> - <title>OpenSSL libraries</title> - <p>The current implementation of the Erlang SSL application is - based on the <em>OpenSSL</em> package version 0.9.7 or higher. - There are source and binary releases on the web. - </p> - <p>Source releases of OpenSSL can be downloaded from the <url href="http://www.openssl.org">OpenSSL</url> project home page, - or mirror sites listed there. - </p> - <p>The same URL also contains links to some compiled binaries and - libraries of OpenSSL (see the <c>Related/Binaries</c> menu) of - which the <url href="http://www.shininglightpro.com/search.php?searchname=Win32+OpenSSL">Shining Light Productions Win32 and OpenSSL</url> pages are of - interest for the Win32 user. - </p> - <p>For some Unix flavours there are binary packages available - on the net. - </p> - <p>If you cannot find a suitable binary OpenSSL package, you - have to fetch an OpenSSL source release and compile it. - </p> - <p>You then have to compile and install the libraries - <c>libcrypto.so</c> and <c>libssl.so</c> (Unix), or the - libraries <c>libeay32.dll</c> and <c>ssleay32.dll</c> (Win32). - </p> - <p>For Unix The <c>ssl_esock</c> port program is delivered linked - to OpenSSL libraries in <c>/usr/local/lib</c>, but the default - dynamic linking will also accept libraries in <c>/lib</c> and - <c>/usr/lib</c>. - </p> - <p>If that is not applicable to the particular Unix operating - system used, the example <c>Makefile</c> in the SSL - <c>priv/obj</c> directory, should be used as a guide to - relinking the final version of the port program. - </p> - <p>For <c>Win32</c> it is only required that the libraries can be - found from the <c>PATH</c> environment variable, or that they - reside in the appropriate <c>SYSTEM32</c> directory; hence no - particular relinking is need. Hence no example <c>Makefile</c> - for Win32 is provided.</p> - </section> - <section> - <title>Restrictions</title> - <p>Users must be aware of export restrictions and patent rights - concerning cryptographic software. - </p> + </taglist> </section> <section> @@ -180,5 +81,3 @@ </section> </appref> - - |