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-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml41
-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml34
-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_crl_cache_api.xml6
-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_session_cache_api.xml10
4 files changed, 48 insertions, 43 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml
index 3a541ed162..bf87644116 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml
@@ -31,37 +31,13 @@
<module>ssl</module>
<modulesummary>Interface Functions for Secure Socket Layer</modulesummary>
<description>
- <p>This module contains interface functions for the SSL.</p>
+ <p>
+ This module contains interface functions for the SSL/TLS protocol.
+ For detailed information about the supported standards see
+ <seealso marker="ssl_app">ssl(6)</seealso>.
+ </p>
</description>
-
- <section>
- <title>SSL</title>
-
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>For application dependencies see <seealso marker="ssl_app"> ssl(6)</seealso> </item>
- <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>
-
- </section>
-
+
<section>
<title>DATA TYPES</title>
<p>The following data types are used in the functions for SSL:</p>
@@ -480,8 +456,8 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
<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></tag>
- <tag><c>{client_preferred_next_protocols, {Precedence :: server | client, ClientPrefs :: [binary()], Default :: binary()}}</c></tag>
+ <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>
@@ -538,7 +514,6 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
be supported by the server for the prevention to work.
</p></warning>
</item>
-
</taglist>
</section>
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.
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_crl_cache_api.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_crl_cache_api.xml
index 71c1c61fe8..03ac010bfe 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_crl_cache_api.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_crl_cache_api.xml
@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@
<v> CRLs = [<seealso
marker="public_key:public_key">public_key:der_encoded()</seealso>] </v>
</type>
- <desc> <p>Lookup the CRLs belonging to the distribution point <c> Distributionpoint</c>. </p>
+ <desc> <p>Lookup the CRLs belonging to the distribution point <c> Distributionpoint</c>.
This function may choose to only look in the cache or to follow distribution point
- links depending on how the cache is administrated.
+ links depending on how the cache is administrated. </p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -103,4 +103,4 @@
</desc>
</func>
</funcs>
-</erlref> \ No newline at end of file
+</erlref>
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_session_cache_api.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_session_cache_api.xml
index bd9330056d..b85d8fb284 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_session_cache_api.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_session_cache_api.xml
@@ -31,9 +31,13 @@
<module>ssl_session_cache_api</module>
<modulesummary>TLS session cache API</modulesummary>
- <description>Defines the API for the TLS session cache so
- that the data storage scheme can be replaced by
- defining a new callback module implementing this API.</description>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Defines the API for the TLS session cache so
+ that the data storage scheme can be replaced by
+ defining a new callback module implementing this API.
+ </p>
+ </description>
<section>
<title>DATA TYPES</title>