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-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/book.xml2
-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/notes.xml94
-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/pkix_certs.xml2
-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/release_notes.xml2
-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml88
-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml29
-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_distribution.xml13
-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/usersguide.xml2
-rw-r--r--lib/ssl/doc/src/using_ssl.xml2
9 files changed, 209 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/book.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/book.xml
index a0890a028d..056c958f0f 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/book.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/book.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<book xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<header titlestyle="normal">
<copyright>
- <year>1999</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>1999</year><year>2016</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/notes.xml
index e5070bc247..c427db24a4 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1999</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>1999</year><year>2016</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -28,6 +28,98 @@
<p>This document describes the changes made to the SSL application.</p>
+<section><title>SSL 7.3.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Correct ssl:prf/5 to use the negotiated cipher suite's
+ prf function in ssl:prf/5 instead of the default prf.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13546</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Timeouts may have the value 0, guards have been corrected
+ to allow this</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13635</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Change of internal handling of hash sign pairs as the
+ used one enforced to much restrictions making some valid
+ combinations unavailable.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13670</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Create a little randomness in sending of session
+ invalidation messages, to mitigate load when whole table
+ is invalidated.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13490</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>SSL 7.3.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Correct cipher suites conversion and gaurd expression.
+ Caused problems with GCM cipher suites and client side
+ option to set signature_algorithms extention values.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13525</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>SSL 7.3.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Corrections to cipher suite handling using the 3 and 4
+ tuple format in addition to commit
+ 89d7e21cf4ae988c57c8ef047bfe85127875c70c</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13511</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Make values for the TLS-1.2 signature_algorithms
+ extension configurable</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13261</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>SSL 7.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/pkix_certs.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/pkix_certs.xml
index a5793af5ca..f365acef4d 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/pkix_certs.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/pkix_certs.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2003</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2003</year><year>2016</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/release_notes.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/release_notes.xml
index 4c9b18f900..2e263c69a7 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/release_notes.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/release_notes.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<part xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1999</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>1999</year><year>2016</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml
index 31f88f3285..4ea000802f 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1999</year><year>2015</year>
+ <year>1999</year><year>2016</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -466,11 +466,24 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
If set to <c>false</c>, it disables the block cipher padding check
to be able to interoperate with legacy software.</p></item>
- </taglist>
-
<warning><p>Using <c>{padding_check, boolean()}</c> makes TLS
vulnerable to the Poodle attack.</p></warning>
+ <tag><c>{beast_mitigation, one_n_minus_one | zero_n | disabled}</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Affects SSL-3.0 and TLS-1.0 connections only. Used to change the BEAST
+ mitigation strategy to interoperate with legacy software.
+ Defaults to <c>one_n_minus_one</c>.</p>
+
+ <p><c>one_n_minus_one</c> - Perform 1/n-1 BEAST mitigation.</p>
+
+ <p><c>zero_n</c> - Perform 0/n BEAST mitigation.</p>
+
+ <p><c>disabled</c> - Disable BEAST mitigation.</p></item>
+
+ <warning><p>Using <c>{beast_mitigation, disabled}</c> makes SSL or TLS
+ vulnerable to the BEAST attack.</p></warning>
+ </taglist>
+
</section>
<section>
@@ -571,9 +584,43 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
be supported by the server for the prevention to work.
</p></warning>
</item>
- </taglist>
+ <tag><marker id="client_signature_algs"/><c>{signature_algs, [{hash(), ecdsa | rsa | dsa}]}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>In addition to the algorithms negotiated by the cipher
+ suite used for key exchange, payload encryption, message
+ authentication and pseudo random calculation, the TLS signature
+ algorithm extension <url
+ href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5246.txt">Section 7.4.1.4.1 in RFC 5246</url> may be
+ used, from TLS 1.2, to negotiate which signature algorithm to use during the
+ TLS handshake. If no lower TLS versions than 1.2 are supported,
+ the client will send a TLS signature algorithm extension
+ with the algorithms specified by this option.
+ Defaults to
+
+ <code>[
+%% SHA2
+{sha512, ecdsa},
+{sha512, rsa},
+{sha384, ecdsa},
+{sha384, rsa},
+{sha256, ecdsa},
+{sha256, rsa},
+{sha224, ecdsa},
+{sha224, rsa},
+%% SHA
+{sha, ecdsa},
+{sha, rsa},
+{sha, dsa},
+]</code>
+
+ The algorithms should be in the preferred order.
+ Selected signature algorithm can restrict which hash functions
+ that may be selected. Default support for {md5, rsa} removed in ssl-8.0
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
</section>
-
+
<section>
<title>SSL OPTION DESCRIPTIONS - SERVER SIDE</title>
@@ -700,6 +747,20 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
<item>If true, use the server's preference for cipher selection. If false
(the default), use the client's preference.
</item>
+
+ <tag><c>{signature_algs, [{hash(), ecdsa | rsa | dsa}]}</c></tag>
+ <item><p> The algorithms specified by
+ this option will be the ones accepted by the server in a signature algorithm
+ negotiation, introduced in TLS-1.2. The algorithms will also be offered to the client if a
+ client certificate is requested. For more details see the <seealso marker="#client_signature_algs">corresponding client option</seealso>.
+ </p> </item>
+
+ <tag><c>{v2_hello_compatible, boolean()}</c></tag>
+ <item>If true, the server accepts clients that send hello messages on SSL-2.0 format but offers
+ supported SSL/TLS versions. Defaults to false, that is the server will not interoperate with clients that
+ offers SSL-2.0.
+ </item>
+
</taglist>
</section>
@@ -889,6 +950,23 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</func>
<func>
+ <name>getstat(Socket) ->
+ {ok, OptionValues} | {error, inet:posix()}</name>
+ <name>getstat(Socket, OptionNames) ->
+ {ok, OptionValues} | {error, inet:posix()}</name>
+ <fsummary>Get one or more statistic options for a socket</fsummary>
+ <type>
+ <v>Socket = sslsocket()</v>
+ <v>OptionNames = [atom()]</v>
+ <v>OptionValues = [{inet:stat_option(), integer()}]</v>
+ </type>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Gets one or more statistic options for the underlying TCP socket.</p>
+ <p>See inet:getstat/2 for statistic options description.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
<name>listen(Port, Options) ->
{ok, ListenSocket} | {error, Reason}</name>
<fsummary>Creates an SSL listen socket.</fsummary>
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml
index d05ece3971..e50ffdbfe6 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>
@@ -94,7 +94,10 @@
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>Maximum 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
@@ -107,16 +110,24 @@
in the session cache callback module. Defaults to <c>[]</c>.</p></item>
<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.
- </p></item>
+ <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>
@@ -131,7 +142,7 @@
shutdown gracefully. Defaults to 5000 milliseconds.
</p>
</item>
-
+ </tag>
</taglist>
</section>
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_distribution.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_distribution.xml
index dc04d446b0..495e02d271 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_distribution.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_distribution.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2000</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2000</year><year>2016</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -196,6 +196,9 @@ Eshell V5.0 (abort with ^G)
<item><c>password</c></item>
<item><c>cacertfile</c></item>
<item><c>verify</c></item>
+ <item><c>verify_fun</c> (write as <c>{Module, Function, InitialUserState}</c>)</item>
+ <item><c>crl_check</c></item>
+ <item><c>crl_cache</c> (write as Erlang term)</item>
<item><c>reuse_sessions</c></item>
<item><c>secure_renegotiate</c></item>
<item><c>depth</c></item>
@@ -203,6 +206,10 @@ Eshell V5.0 (abort with ^G)
<item><c>ciphers</c> (use old string format)</item>
</list>
+ <p>Note that <c>verify_fun</c> needs to be written in a different
+ form than the corresponding SSL option, since funs are not
+ accepted on the command line.</p>
+
<p>The server can also take the options <c>dhfile</c> and
<c>fail_if_no_peer_cert</c> (also prefixed).</p>
@@ -210,10 +217,6 @@ Eshell V5.0 (abort with ^G)
initiates a connection to another node. <c>server_</c>-prefixed
options are used when accepting a connection from a remote node.</p>
- <p>More complex options, such as <c>verify_fun</c>, are currently not
- available, but a mechanism to handle such options may be added in
- a future release.</p>
-
<p>Raw socket options, such as <c>packet</c> and <c>size</c> must not
be specified on the command line.</p>
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/usersguide.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/usersguide.xml
index 7bd0ae5c4c..23ccf668c3 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/usersguide.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/usersguide.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<part xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2000</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2000</year><year>2016</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/using_ssl.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/using_ssl.xml
index b6a4bb5bec..f84cd6e391 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/using_ssl.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/using_ssl.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2003</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2003</year><year>2016</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>