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diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml
index 24b0f5300e..6c82e32a74 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,33 @@
<appsummary>The ssl application provides secure communication over
sockets.</appsummary>
- <description></description>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ The ssl application is an implementation of the SSL/TLS protocol in Erlang.
+ </p>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>Supported SSL/TLS-versions are SSL-3.0, TLS-1.0,
+ TLS-1.1, and TLS-1.2.</item>
+ <item>For security reasons SSL-2.0 is not supported.</item>
+ <item>For security reasons SSL-3.0 is no longer supported by default,
+ but can be configured.</item>
+ <item>Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman cipher suites are supported,
+ but not Diffie Hellman Certificates cipher suites.</item>
+ <item>Elliptic Curve cipher suites are supported if the Crypto
+ application supports it and named curves are used.
+ </item>
+ <item>Export cipher suites are not supported as the
+ U.S. lifted its export restrictions in early 2000.</item>
+ <item>IDEA cipher suites are not supported as they have
+ become deprecated by the latest TLS specification so it is not
+ motivated to implement them.</item>
+ <item>CRL validation is supported.</item>
+ <item>Policy certificate extensions are not supported.</item>
+ <item>'Server Name Indication' extension client side
+ (RFC 6066, Section 3) is supported.</item>
+ </list>
+ </description>
+
<section>
<title>DEPENDENCIES</title>
<p>The SSL application uses the <c>public_key</c> and
@@ -58,7 +84,7 @@
<p><c>erl -ssl protocol_version "['tlsv1.2', 'tlsv1.1']"</c></p>
<taglist>
- <tag><c> protocol_version = <seealso marker="ssl#type-protocol">ssl:protocol()</seealso> <![CDATA[<optional>]]></c></tag>
+ <tag><c>protocol_version = </c><seealso marker="ssl#type-protocol">ssl:protocol()</seealso><c><![CDATA[<optional>]]></c></tag>
<item><p>Protocol supported by started clients and
servers. If this option is not set, it defaults to all
protocols currently supported by the SSL application.
@@ -78,8 +104,8 @@
<item><p>List of extra user-defined arguments to the <c>init</c> function
in the session cache callback module. Defaults to <c>[]</c>.</p></item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[session_cache_client_max = integer() <optional>]]></c></tag>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[session_cache_server_max = integer() <optional>]]></c></tag>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[session_cache_client_max = integer() <optional>]]></c><br/>
+ <c><![CDATA[session_cache_server_max = integer() <optional>]]></c></tag>
<item><p>Limits the growth of the clients/servers session cache,
if the maximum number of sessions is reached, the current cache entries will
be invalidated regardless of their remaining lifetime. Defaults to 1000.