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diff --git a/lib/ssl/internal_doc/ssl-implementation.txt b/lib/ssl/internal_doc/ssl-implementation.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e5d6ac8cd0..0000000000 --- a/lib/ssl/internal_doc/ssl-implementation.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,52 +0,0 @@ - -Important modules: - - module behaviour children - ------ --------- - ssl_app application ssl_sup - ssl_sup supervisor ssl_server, ssl_broker_sup - ssl_server gen_server - - ssl_broker_sup supervisor ssl_broker - ssl_broker gen_server - - -The ssl_server controls a port program that implements the SSL functionality. -That port program uses the OpenSSL package. - -Each socket has a corresponding broker (listen, accept or connect). A broker -is created and supervised by the ssl_broker_sup. - -All communication is between a user and a broker. The broker communicates -with the ssl_server, that sends its commands to the port program and handles -the port program responses, that are distributed to users through the -brokers. - -There is a distinction between commands and data flow between the ssl_server -and the port program. Each established connection between the user and the -outside world consists of a local erlang socket (owned by the broker) that -is read from and written to by the broker. At the other end of the local -connection is a local socket in the port program. - -The "real" socket that connects to the outside world is in the port program -(including listen sockets). The main purpose of the port program is to -shuffle data between local sockets and outside world sockets, and detect and -propagate read and write errors (including detection of closed sockets) to -the ssl_server. - -There is documentation in the ssl_broker.erl module. - -There is also documentation in the esock.c and esock_openssl.c files. - -The ssl_pem.erl, ssl_pkix.erl and ssl_base64.erl modules are support -modules for reading SSL certificates. Modules for parsing certificates -are generated from ASN.1 modules in the `pkix' directory. - -The `examples' directory contains functions for generating certificates. -Those certificates are used in the test suites. - - - - - - - - |