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diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml index 2b6dc7e8be..f317dfded4 100644 --- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml +++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <appref> <header> <copyright> - <year>1999</year><year>2015</year> + <year>1999</year><year>2016</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -33,7 +33,43 @@ <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>For security reasons DES cipher suites are no longer supported by default, + but can be configured.</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> + <section> <title>DEPENDENCIES</title> <p>The SSL application uses the <c>public_key</c> and @@ -58,7 +94,7 @@ <p><c>erl -ssl protocol_version "['tlsv1.2', 'tlsv1.1']"</c></p> <taglist> - <tag><c><![CDATA[protocol_version = <seealso marker="kernel:error_logger">ssl:protocol()</seealso> <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. @@ -66,33 +102,73 @@ to <c>ssl:connect/[2,3]</c> and <c>ssl:listen/2</c>.</p></item> <tag><c><![CDATA[session_lifetime = integer() <optional>]]></c></tag> - <item><p>Lifetime of the session data in seconds.</p></item> + <item><p>Maximum lifetime of the session data in seconds. Defaults to 24 hours which is the maximum + recommended lifetime by <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/5246rfc.txt">RFC 5246</url>. However + sessions may be invalidated earlier due to the maximum limitation of the session cache table. + </p></item> <tag><c><![CDATA[session_cb = atom() <optional>]]></c></tag> <item><p>Name of the session cache callback module that implements the <c>ssl_session_cache_api</c> behavior. Defaults to - <c>ssl_session_cache.erl</c>.</p></item> + <c>ssl_session_cache</c>.</p></item> <tag><c><![CDATA[session_cb_init_args = proplist:proplist() <optional>]]></c></tag> <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><br/></tag> + <item><p>Limits the growth of the clients session cache, that is + how many sessions towards servers that are cached to be used by + new client connections. If the maximum number of sessions is + reached, the current cache entries will be invalidated + regardless of their remaining lifetime. Defaults to + 1000.</p></item> + + <tag> <c><![CDATA[session_cache_server_max = integer() <optional>]]></c></tag> + <item><p>Limits the growth of the servers session cache, that is + how many client sessions are cached by the server. If the + maximum number of sessions is reached, the current cache entries + will be invalidated regardless of their remaining + lifetime. Defaults to 1000.</p></item> <tag><c><![CDATA[ssl_pem_cache_clean = integer() <optional>]]></c></tag> <item> <p> - Number of milliseconds between PEM cache validations. + Number of milliseconds between PEM cache validations. Defaults to 2 minutes. </p> <seealso marker="ssl#clear_pem_cache-0">ssl:clear_pem_cache/0</seealso> </item> + + <tag><c><![CDATA[bypass_pem_cache = boolean() <optional>]]></c></tag> + <item> + <p>Introduced in ssl-8.0.2. Disables the PEM-cache. + The PEM cache has proven to be a bottleneck, until the + implementation has been improved this can be used as + a workaround. Defaults to false. + </p> + </item> + + <tag><c><![CDATA[alert_timeout = integer() <optional>]]></c></tag> + <item> + <p> + Number of milliseconds between sending of a fatal alert and + closing the connection. Waiting a little while improves the + peers chances to properly receiving the alert so it may + shutdown gracefully. Defaults to 5000 milliseconds. + </p> + </item> </taglist> </section> <section> <title>ERROR LOGGER AND EVENT HANDLERS</title> - <p>The SSL application uses the default <seealso marker="kernel:error_logger">OTP error logger</seealso> to log unexpected errors and TLS alerts. The logging of TLS alerts may be turned off with the <c>log_alert</c> option. </p> + <p>The SSL application uses the default <seealso + marker="kernel:error_logger">OTP error logger</seealso> to log + unexpected errors and TLS alerts. The logging of TLS alerts may be + turned off with the <c>log_alert</c> option. </p> </section> <section> |