A ticker process could potentially be blocked indefinitely trying to send a tick to a node not responding. If this happened, the connection would not be brought down as it should.

This requires erts-5.7.4 and kernel-2.13.4 or later to be able to get the erlang distribution over ssl to work.

Own Id: OTP-8218

The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.

Own Id: OTP-8250

Code cleanup from Kostis.

Own Id: OTP-8260

The ssl:ssl_accept/3 issue was not properly fixed in the previous patch, see OTP-8244.

Own Id: OTP-8275 Aux Id: seq11451

Allow clients to not send certificates if option fail_if_no_peer_cert was not set.

Own Id: OTP-8224

A ssl:ssl_accept/3 could crash a connection if the timing was wrong.

Removed info message if the socket closed without a proper disconnect from the ssl layer.

ssl:send/2 is now blocking until the message is sent.

Own Id: OTP-8244 Aux Id: seq11420

A client could avoid a certificate check if the client code didn't send the requested certificate.

Own Id: OTP-8137

Packet handling was not implemented correctly.

Inet option handling support have been improved.

The verify_fun is now invoked even if verify_peer is used, that implies that by default {bad_cert,unknown_ca} is an accepted fault during the client connection phase. The check can still be done by suppling another verify_fun.

Own Id: OTP-8011 Aux Id: seq11287

A "new_ssl" socket was not closed if the controlling process died without calling ssl:close/1.

Own Id: OTP-7963 Aux Id: seq11276

Fixed bug that caused the ssl handshake finished message to be calculated wrongly under the circumstances that the server did not send the trusted cert and that the previous cert did not have the extension telling us the trusted certs name. This manifested it self as bad_record_mac alert from the server.

Own Id: OTP-7878

The cacertsfile option is now optional for ssl servers.

Own Id: OTP-7656

For the ssl client the options cacertfile, certfile and keyfile are now optional as they are not always needed depending on configuration of the client itself and the configuration of the server. Also as PEM-files may contain more than one entry the keyfile option will default to the same file as given by the certfile option.

Own Id: OTP-7870

Added new ssl client option verify_fun.

Own Id: OTP-7871

Error log entries are now formatted correctly.

Own Id: OTP-7258

All handling of X509-certificates and public keys have been moved to the new application public_key.

Own Id: OTP-6894

New ssl now supports SSL-3.0 and TLS-1.0

Own Id: OTP-7037

New ssl now supports all inet-packet types.

Own Id: OTP-7039

The new ssl-server is now able to send a certificate request to the client. However new options may be introduced later to fully support all features regarding certificate requests.

Own Id: OTP-7150

Running erlang distribution over ssl don't work as described in the documentation.

Own Id: OTP-7536

ssl_prim.erl was passing an FD rather than an #sslsocket to ssl_broker:ssl_accept_prim. This could cause problems in the deprecated accept function, this will not cause any more problems however this function is deprecated!

Own Id: OTP-6926

Erlang distribution over ssl was broken after R11B-0, this has now been fixed.

Own Id: OTP-7004

All inet options are available in the new ssl implementation that is released as a alfa in ssl-3.9 and will replace the old implementation in ssl-4.0. This will not be fixed in the old implementation.

Own Id: OTP-4677

The new ssl implementation released as a alfa in this version supports upgrading of a tcp connection to a ssl connection so that http client and servers may implement RFC 2817.

Own Id: OTP-5510

A new implementation of ssl is released as a alfa version in ssl-3.9 it will later replace the old implementation in ssl-4.0. The new implementation can be accessed by providing the option {ssl_imp, new} to the ssl:connect and ssl:listen functions.

The new implementation is Erlang based and all logic is in Erlang and only payload encryption calculations are done in C via the crypto application. The main reason for making a new implementation is that the old solution was very crippled as the control of the ssl-socket was deep down in openssl making it hard if not impossible to support all inet options, ipv6 and upgrade of a tcp connection to a ssl connection. The alfa version has a few limitations that will be removed before the ssl-4.0 release. Main differences and limitations in the alfa are listed below.

Own Id: OTP-6619

New ssl implementation, released as alfa in ssl-3.9, supports ipv6. It will not be supported in the old implementation.

Own Id: OTP-6637 Aux Id: OTP-6636

Removed use of erl_flags from Makefile.

Own Id: OTP-6689

A bug in ssl_accept could cause all ssl connections to hang when a connection attempt was closed by the client while the server was in ssl_accept.

Own Id: OTP-6612 Aux Id: seq10599

SSL now uses a two-phase accept, with a separate accept calls for the socket and the ssl protocol. This avoids timeouts when a client doesn't initiate ssl handshake.

With the old implementation of accept, the server was locked by a client, if the client didn't do proper ssl handshake.

Own Id: OTP-6418 Aux Id: seq10105

An integer array pointing to a struct pollfd array, is now reset before file descriptors are collected to be included in a call to poll(). This is to prevent file descriptors to be mixed up.

Own Id: OTP-6084

The generation of the module ssl_pkix_oid contained multiple identifiers, which made the mapping between atoms and identifiers not one-to-one.

Own Id: OTP-6085

The state of a connection in active mode could be in a restrictive state, so that an internal tcp_closed message was incorrectly considered illegal, resulting in a premature termination of the connection process.

Own Id: OTP-5972 Aux Id: seq10188

Erlang distribution over SSL was broken. Corrected. (Thanks to Fredrik Thulin.)

Own Id: OTP-5863

The port program for the ssl application could waste huge amounts of CPU time if a write could not be completed directly and was put in the write queue. (Only on platforms where poll() is used, such as Solaris and Linux.)

Own Id: OTP-5784

A process reading only a portion of a sufficiently large amount of data from an accepted socket, and then quering the ssl library (e.g. ssl:getpeername()), would cause a global deadlock in the esock port program.

Own Id: OTP-5702

A spelling error in the module ssl_pkix caused the call to ssl:peercert/2 to fail when the option subject was used.

Own Id: OTP-5708

Because fopen() on Solaris 8 can't handle file descriptor numbers above 255, reading of certificate files would fail if all file descriptors below 256 were in use (typically, if many connections were open). This problem has been worked around.

The ssl application's port program used to use select(), which meant that it could not handle more than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors (usually 1024). To eliminate that limitation, poll() is now used on all platforms that support it.

Solaris/Sparc, 64-bit emulator: The SO_REUSEADDR option was not set for listen sockets, which essentially made the ssl application unusable. Corrected.

The default listen queue size for ssl port program was changed to 128 (from 5).

Own Id: OTP-5755 Aux Id: seq10068

The R/W buffer length i esock.c was too small. It has been increased from 4k to 32k.

Own Id: OTP-5620

A configuration option for choosing protocol versions has been added (sslv2, sslv3, and tlsv1).

Own Id: OTP-5429 Aux Id: seq9755

Linked in drivers in the crypto, and asn1 applications are now compiled with the -D_THREAD_SAFE and -D_REENTRANT switches on unix when the emulator has thread support enabled.

Linked in drivers on MacOSX are not compiled with the undocumented -lbundle1.o switch anymore. Thanks to Sean Hinde who sent us a patch.

Linked in driver in crypto, and port programs in ssl, now compiles on OSF1.

Minor makefile improvements in runtime_tools.

Own Id: OTP-5346

ssl:recv/3 with finite timeout value, closed the connection at timeout.

Own Id: OTP-4882

When a file descriptor was marked for closing, and and end-of-file condition had already been detected, the file descriptor was never closed.

Own Id: OTP-5093 Aux Id: seq8806

When the number of open file descriptors reached FD_SETSIZE, the SSL port program entered a busy loop.

Own Id: OTP-5094 Aux Id: seq8806

The SSL application now supports SSL sessions for servers, which typically speeds up HTTP requests from browsers.

Own Id: OTP-5095

The UTF8String type is now defined in asn1-1.4.4.2 and later. Therefore the definitions of UTF8String has been removed from the ASN.1 modules PKIX1Explicit88.asn1 and PKIXAttributeCertificate.asn1. The SSL application can now only be built using asn-1.4.4.2 or later.

OwnId: OTP-4971.

An unexpected object identifier would crash ssl:peercert.

OwnId: OTP-4771.

The cache_timout option was silently ignored. It had to do with SSL sessions, where multiple connections can occur. Since the Erlang SSL application does not support sessions the option is still ignored, and consequently the documentation about it has been removed.

OwnId: OTP-3146

The Erlang SSL application is now based on OpenSSL version 0.9.7a. OpenSSL 0.9.6 should also work.

OwnId: OTP-4002

When connecting it is now possible to bind to a local address and local port.

OwnId: OTP-4675

The ssl_esock port program is now part of the distribution and thus does not have to be created explicitly. It is dynamically linked to OpenSSL libraries in a "standard" location (typically /usr/local/lib on UNIX; in the path on Win32).

OwnId: OTP-4676

The new functions ssl:peercert/1/2 provide information from the certificate of a peer of a connection.

OwnId: OTP-4680

Aux Id: seq7688

The function ssl:port/1 has been removed from the documentation, but not from the ssl interface module. The recommendation is to use ssl:peername/1 instead, which provides both address and port of the peer.

OwnId: OTP-4681

New User's Guide documentation has been added.

OwnId: OTP-4682

The old ssl_socket interface has been removed and also the documentation of it.

OwnId: OTP-4683

The use of ephemeral RSA keys is now supported. It is a global configuration option (see the ssl(6) manual page).

OwnId: OTP-4691.

The option cacertfile is now in effect, and can therefore no longer be set with the OS environment variable SSL_CERT_FILE (which did set the same value for all connections).

OwnId: OTP-3146

There was a synchronization error at closing of an SSL connection.

OwnId: OTP-4435

Aux Id: seq7534

C macros in debuglog.c were not ANSI C compliant.

OwnId: OTP-4674

The binary option was not properly handled.

OwnId: OTP-4678

The ssl:format_error/1 did not consider inet error codes, nor did it have a catch all for unknown error codes.

OwnId: OTP-4679

Change of controlling process in not OTP compliant.

OwnId; OTP-4712

There is still no way to restrict the cipher sizes.

OwnId: OTP-4712

The keep_alive and reuse_addr options will be added in a future release.

OwnId: OTP-4677

There is currently no way to restrict the SSL/TLS protocol versions to use. In a future release this will be supported as a configuration option, and as an option for each connection as well.

OwnId: OTP-4711.

There was a synchronization error at closing, which could result in that an SSL socket was removed prematurely, resulting in that a user process referring to it received an unexpected exit.

OwnId: OTP-4435

Aux Id: seq7600

Setting of the option `nodelay' caused the SSL port program to dump core.

OwnId: OTP-4380

Aux Id: -

Setting of the option '{active, once}' in setopts was wrong, causing a correct socket message to be regarded as erroneous.

OwnId: OTP-4380

Aux Id: -

A self-signed peer certificate was always rejected with the error `eselfsignedcert', irrespective of the `depth' value.

OwnId: OTP-4374

Aux Id: seq7417

All TCP options allowed in gen_tcp, are now also allowed in SSL, except the option {reuseaddr, Boolean}. A new function getopts has been added to the SSL interface module ssl.

OwnId: OTP-4305, OTP-4159

The roles of the SSLeay and OpenSSL packages has been clarified in the ssl(6) application manual page. Also the URLs from which to download SSLeay has been updated.

OwnId: OTP-4002

Aux Id: seq5269

A call to ssl:listen(Port, Options) with Options = [] resulted in the cryptic {error, ebadf} return value. The return value has been changed to {error, enooptions}, and the behaviour has been documented in the listen/2 function.

OwnId: OTP-4016

Aux Id: seq7006

Use of the option {nodelay, boolean()} crashed the ssl_server.

OwnId: OTP-4070

Aux Id:

A bug caused the Erlang distribution over ssl to fail. This bug has now been fixed.

OwnId: OTP-4072

Aux Id:

On Windows when the SSL port program encountered an error code not anticipated it crashed.

OwnId: OTP-4132

Aux Id:

The ssl:accept/1-2 function sometimes returned {error, {What, Where}} instead of {error, What}, where What is an atom.

OwnId: OTP-3775

Aux Id: seq4991

Sometimes the SSL portprogram would loop in an accept loop, without terminating even when the SSL application was stopped..

OwnId: OTP-3691

The restriction that only the creator of an SSL socket can read from and write to the socket has been lifted.

OwnId: OTP-3301

The option {packet, cdr} for SSL sockets has been added, which means that SSL sockets also supports CDR encoded packets.

OwnId: OTP-3302

Setting of a CA certificate file with the cacertfile option (in calls to ssl:accept/1/2 or ssl:connect/3/4) does not work due to weaknesses in the SSLeay package.

A work-around is to set the OS environment variable SSL_CERT_FILE before SSL is started. However, then the CA certificate file will be global for all connections.

OwnId: OTP-3146

When changing controlling process of an SSL socket, a temporary process is started, which is not gen_server compliant.

OwnId: OTP-3146

Although there is a cache timeout option, it is silently ignored.

OwnId: OTP-3146

There is currently no way to restrict the cipher sizes.

OwnId: OTP-3146

The set of possible error reasons has been extended to contain diagnostics on erroneous certificates and failures to verify certificates.

OwnId: OTP-3145

The maximum number of simultaneous SSL connections on Windows has been increased from 31 to 127.

OwnId: OTP-3145

A dead-lock occurring when write queues are not empty has been removed.

OwnId: OTP-3145

Error reasons have been unified and changed.

(** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY **)

OwnId: OTP-3145

On Windows a check of the existence of the environment variable ERLSRV_SERVICE_NAME has been added. If that variable is defined, the port program of the SSL application will not terminated when a user logs off.

OwnId: OTP-3145

An error in the setting of the nodelay option has been corrected.

OwnId: OTP-3145

The confounded notions of verify mode and verify depth has been corrected. The option verifydepth has been removed, and the two separate options verify and depth has been added.

(** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY **)

OwnId: OTP-3145

Setting of a CA certificate file with the cacertfile option (in calls to ssl:accept/1/2 or ssl:connect/3/4) does not work due to weaknesses in the SSLeay package.

A work-around is to set the OS environment variable SSL_CERT_FILE before SSL is started. However, then the CA certificate file will be global for all connections.

OwnId: OTP-3146

When changing controlling process of an SSL socket, a temporary process is started, which is not gen_server compliant.

OwnId: OTP-3146

Although there is a cache timeout option, it is silently ignored.

OwnId: OTP-3146

There is currently no way to restrict the cipher sizes.

OwnId: OTP-3146