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<description>
<p>
- The ssl application is an implementation of the SSL/TLS/DTLS protocol in Erlang.
+ The ssl application is an implementation of the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols in Erlang.
</p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>Supported SSL/TLS/DTLS-versions are SSL-3.0, TLS-1.0,
- TLS-1.1, TLS-1.2, DTLS-1.0 (based on TLS-1.1), DTLS-1.2 (based on TLS-1.2)</item>
- <item>For security reasons SSL-2.0 is not supported.
- Interoperability with SSL-2.0 enabled clients dropped. (OTP 21) </item>
- <item>For security reasons SSL-3.0 is no longer supported by default,
- but can be configured. (OTP 19) </item>
- <item>For security reasons RSA key exchange cipher suites are no longer supported by default,
- but can be configured. (OTP 21) </item>
- <item>For security reasons DES cipher suites are no longer supported by default,
- but can be configured. (OTP 20) </item>
- <item>For security reasons 3DES cipher suites are no longer supported by default,
- but can be configured. (OTP 21) </item>
- <item> Renegotiation Indication Extension <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5746.txt">RFC 5746</url> is supported
- </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>Compression is not supported.</item>
- <item>CRL validation is supported.</item>
- <item>Policy certificate extensions are not supported.</item>
- <item>'Server Name Indication' extension
- (<url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6066.txt">RFC 6066</url>) is supported.</item>
- <item>Application Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) and its successor Next Protocol Negotiation (NPN)
- are supported. </item>
- <item>It is possible to use Pre-Shared Key (PSK) and Secure Remote Password (SRP)
- cipher suites, but they are not enabled by default.
- </item>
- </list>
- </description>
+ <p>For current statement of standards compliance see the <seealso marker="standards_compliance">User's Guide</seealso>.</p>
+ </description>
<section>
<title>DEPENDENCIES</title>