View Source SSL Release Notes

This document describes the changes made to the SSL application.

SSL 11.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Starting a TLS server without sufficient credentials (certificate or anonymous cipher) would work, but it was impossible to connect to it.
This has been corrected to return an error instead of starting the server.
Own Id: OTP-18887 Aux Id: GH-7493, PR-7918
ASN.1 decoding errors are handled in more places to ensure that errors are returned instead of cause a crash.
Own Id: OTP-18969 Aux Id: GH-8058, PR-8256
Improved error checking on the API functions.
Own Id: OTP-18992 Aux Id: GH-8066

Improvements and New Features

The ssl client can negotiate and handle certificate status request (OCSP stapling support on the client side).
Own Id: OTP-18606 Aux Id: OTP-16875,OTP-16448
Memory consumption has been reduced and performance increased by refactoring internal data structures and their usage.
Own Id: OTP-18665 Aux Id: PR-7447
Added ssl_crl_cache_api:lookup/2 as an optional -callback attribute.
Own Id: OTP-18788 Aux Id: PR-7700
Key customization support has been extended to allow flexibility for implementers of for instance hardware security modules (HSM) or trusted platform modules (TPM).
Own Id: OTP-18876 Aux Id: PR-7898, PR-7475
The proc_lib:set_label/1 function is now used to increase observability of ssl processes.
Own Id: OTP-18879
Brainpool elliptic curves are now supported in TLS-1.3.
Own Id: OTP-18884 Aux Id: PR-8056
The documentation has been migrated to use Markdown and ExDoc.
Own Id: OTP-18955 Aux Id: PR-8026
The existing function ssl:key_exporter_materials/4 is now documented and supported.
Own Id: OTP-19016 Aux Id: PR-8233
For security reasons, the CBC ciphers are now longer included in the list of default ciphers for TLS-1.2.
POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY
Own Id: OTP-19025 Aux Id: PR-8250
There is a new cert_policy_opts option to configure certificate policy options for the certificate path validation.
Own Id: OTP-19027 Aux Id: PR-8255

SSL 11.1.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Cleanup and close all connections in DTLS when the listen socket owner dies.
Improved IPv6 handling in DTLS.
Own Id: OTP-19037 Aux Id: GH-7951 GH-7955
Fixed a crash in dtls accept.
Own Id: OTP-19059 Aux Id: GH-8338

SSL 11.1.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

ssl:prf/5, will start working instead of hanging in a TLS-1.3 context if called appropriately. Note that the implementation has changed and in OTP-27 a more adequate API will be documented.
Own Id: OTP-18890 Aux Id: GH-7911
Server name verification didn't work if a connection was made with IP-address as a string.
Own Id: OTP-18909 Aux Id: GH-7968
The fallback after "dh" ssl option was undefined was to get "dh" from ssl options again. This is clearly wrong and now changed to the documented fallback "dhfile" ssl option.
Own Id: OTP-18919 Aux Id: PR-7984
Correct default value selection for DTLS. Will only affect users linked with really old version of cryptolib library.
Own Id: OTP-18962 Aux Id: GH-8079
Adhere elliptic curves with RFC 8422 pre TLS-1.3, that is Edwards curves are added to curves that can be used for key exchange, and documentation and implementation of eccs/0,1 are aligned.
Own Id: OTP-18991

Improvements and New Features

Improve alert reason when ecdhe_rsa key_exchange does not have any common curves to use
Own Id: OTP-18985

SSL 11.1.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Legacy name handling could cause interop problems between TLS-1.3/1.2 client and TLS-1.2 server.
Own Id: OTP-18917 Aux Id: GH-7978

SSL 11.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

ssl application will validate id-kp-serverAuth and id-kp-clientAuth extended key usage only in end entity certificates. public_key application will disallow "anyExtendedKeyUsage" for CA certificates that includes the extended key usage extension and marks it critical.
Own Id: OTP-18739
Replaced unintentional Erlang Public License 1.1 headers in some files with the intended Apache License 2.0 header.
Own Id: OTP-18815 Aux Id: PR-7780
Correct handling of TLS-1.3 legacy scheme names, could cause interop failures for TLS-1.2 clients.
Own Id: OTP-18817
Add missing export for connection_info() API type.
Own Id: OTP-18886

Improvements and New Features

Fixed server name indication which was not handled properly.
Own Id: OTP-18836 Aux Id: GH-7795
Align documentation and implementation
Own Id: OTP-18853 Aux Id: PR-7841
Improve connection setup by optimizing certificate lookup.
Own Id: OTP-18893 Aux Id: PR-7920 PR-7921

SSL 11.0.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Avoid function clause error in ssl:getopts/2 by handling that inet:getopts may return an empty list during some circumstances, such as the socket being in a closing state.
Own Id: OTP-18697 Aux Id: GH-7506
The API function `ssl:recv/3` has been tightened to disallow negative length, which has never been documented to work, but was passed through and caused strange errors.
Own Id: OTP-18700 Aux Id: GH-7507
When a client initiated renegotiation was rejected and the client socket was in active mode the expected error message to the controlling process was not sent.
Own Id: OTP-18712 Aux Id: GH-7431

Improvements and New Features

Add some guidance for signature algorithms configuration in ssl applications users guide.
Own Id: OTP-18631

SSL 11.0.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Added keylog information to all protocol versions in ssl:connection_information/2.
Own Id: OTP-18643 Aux Id: ERIERL-932

Improvements and New Features

Add RFC-6083 considerations for DTLS to enable gen_sctp based callback for the transport.
Own Id: OTP-18618 Aux Id: ERIERL-932

SSL 11.0.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Make sure that selection of client certificates handle both TLS-1.3 and TLS-1.2 names correctly. Could cause valid client certificate to not be selected, and an empty client certificate message to be sent to server.
Own Id: OTP-18588 Aux Id: GH-7264, PR-7277
Improved ssl:format_error/1 to handle more error tuples.
Own Id: OTP-18596 Aux Id: GH-7247
Fixed hanging ssl:connect when ssl application is not started.
Own Id: OTP-18603 Aux Id: GH-7297
Correct handling of retransmission timers, current behavior could cause unwanted delays.
Own Id: OTP-18632 Aux Id: PR-7300, GH-7301

SSL 11.0

Improvements and New Features

Remove less that 256 bit ECC from default supported ECC pre TLS-1.3
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-14771
Improved error checking and handling of ssl options.
Own Id: OTP-15903
With this change, stateless tickets generated by server with anti_replay option enabled can be used for creating ClientHello throughout ticket lifetime. Without this change, usability was limited to WindowSize number of seconds configured for anti_replay option.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-18168 Aux Id: PR-6019, GH-6014
Support for Kernel TLS (kTLS), has been added to the SSL application, for TLS distribution (-proto_dist inet_tls), the SSL option {ktls, true}. Using this for general SSL sockets is uncomfortable, undocumented and not recommended since it requires very platform dependent raw options.
This, for now, only works for some not too old Linux distributions. Roughly, a kernel 5.2.0 or later with support for UserLand Protocols and the kernel module tls is required.
Own Id: OTP-18235 Aux Id: PR-6104, PR-5840
With this change, TLS 1.3 server can be configured to include client certificate in session ticket.
Own Id: OTP-18253
With this change, it is possible to configure encryption seed to be used with TLS1.3 stateless tickets. This enables using tickets on different server instances.
Own Id: OTP-18254 Aux Id: PR-5982
Debugging enhancements.
Own Id: OTP-18312
With this change, maybe keyword atom is not used as function name in ssl code.
Own Id: OTP-18335
Replace size/1 with either tuple_size/1 or byte_size/1
The size/1 BIF is not optimized by the JIT, and its use can result in worse types for Dialyzer.
When one knows that the value being tested must be a tuple, tuple_size/1 should always be preferred.
When one knows that the value being tested must be a binary, byte_size/1 should be preferred. However, byte_size/1 also accepts a bitstring (rounding up size to a whole number of bytes), so one must make sure that the call to byte_size/ is preceded by a call to is_binary/1 to ensure that bitstrings are rejected. Note that the compiler removes redundant calls to is_binary/1, so if one is not sure whether previous code had made sure that the argument is a binary, it does not harm to add an is_binary/1 test immediately before the call to byte_size/1.
Own Id: OTP-18405 Aux Id: GH-6672,PR-6702,PR-6768,PR-6700,PR-6769,PR-6812,PR-6814
For security reasons remove support for SHA1 and DSA algorithms from default values.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-18438 Aux Id: GH-6679
Mitigate memory usage from large certificate chains by lowering the maximum handshake size. This should not effect the common cases, if needed it can be configured to a higher value.
Own Id: OTP-18453
Change the client default verify option to verify_peer. Note that this makes it mandatory to also supply trusted CA certificates or explicitly set verify to verify_none. This also applies when using the so called anonymous test cipher suites defined in TLS versions pre TLS-1.3.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-18455 Aux Id: GH-5899
Erlang distribution code in Kernel and SSL has been refactored a bit to facilitate debugging and re-usability, which shouldn't have any noticeable effects on behaviour or performance.
Own Id: OTP-18456
Add encoding and decoding of use_srtp hello extension to facilitate for DTLS users to implement SRTP functionality.
Own Id: OTP-18459
Refactors the (ssl application to use macros for TLS and DTLS versions instead of hard-coded tuple numbers. This change improves the maintainability of ssl
Own Id: OTP-18465 Aux Id: GH-7065
If the function ssl:renegotiate/1 is called on connection that is running TLS-1.3 return an error instead of hanging or timing out.
Own Id: OTP-18507
If a user cancel alert with level warning is received during handshake make it be handled the same regardless of TLS version. If it is received in connection in TLS-1.3 regard it as an error as it is inappropriate.
In TLS-1.3 all error alerts are considered FATAL regardless of legacy alert type. But make sure legacy type is printed in logs to not confuse users that are expecting the same legacy type as sent by peer.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-18531
Make fail_if_no_peer_cert default true if verify_peer is set on the server, otherwise the server will accept the connection if verify_peer is set and the user have forgot to set the fail_if_no_peer_cert and the client did not send a certificate.
Own Id: OTP-18567
To make it easier to configure signature algorithms with algorithms that are moved from the default add the API function signature_algs/2 that lists possible values. Also make sha224 a non default value.
Own Id: OTP-18572

SSL 10.9.1.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

ssl application will validate id-kp-serverAuth and id-kp-clientAuth extended key usage only in end entity certificates. public_key application will disallow "anyExtendedKeyUsage" for CA certificates that includes the extended key usage extension and marks it critical.
Own Id: OTP-18739
Add missing export for connection_info() API type.
Own Id: OTP-18886

SSL 10.9.1.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

The API function `ssl:recv/3` has been tightened to disallow negative length, which has never been documented to work, but was passed through and caused strange errors.
Own Id: OTP-18700 Aux Id: GH-7507
When a client initiated renegotiation was rejected and the client socket was in active mode the expected error message to the controlling process was not sent.
Own Id: OTP-18712 Aux Id: GH-7431

SSL 10.9.1.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Added keylog information to all protocol versions in ssl:connection_information/2.
Own Id: OTP-18643 Aux Id: ERIERL-932

Improvements and New Features

Add RFC-6083 considerations for DTLS to enable gen_sctp based callback for the transport.
Own Id: OTP-18618 Aux Id: ERIERL-932

SSL 10.9.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

With this change, ssl:connection_information/2 returns correct keylog data after TLS1.3 key update.
Own Id: OTP-18489
Client signature algorithm list input order is now honored again , it was accidently reversed by a previous fix.
Own Id: OTP-18550

SSL 10.9

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fixed that new dtls connections from the same client ip port combination works. If there is a process waiting for accept the new connection will connect to that, otherwise it will try to re-connect to the old server connection.
Own Id: OTP-18371 Aux Id: GH-6160
When shutting down a node that uses SSL distribution (-proto_dist inet_tls), a confusing error message about an unexpected process exit was printed. This particular message is no longer generated.
Own Id: OTP-18443 Aux Id: PR-6810

Improvements and New Features

fixes the type spec for ssl:format_error/1
Own Id: OTP-18366 Aux Id: PR-6565, GH-6506
Replace size/1 with either tuple_size/1 or byte_size/1
The size/1 BIF is not optimized by the JIT, and its use can result in worse types for Dialyzer.
When one knows that the value being tested must be a tuple, tuple_size/1 should always be preferred.
When one knows that the value being tested must be a binary, byte_size/1 should be preferred. However, byte_size/1 also accepts a bitstring (rounding up size to a whole number of bytes), so one must make sure that the call to byte_size/ is preceded by a call to is_binary/1 to ensure that bitstrings are rejected. Note that the compiler removes redundant calls to is_binary/1, so if one is not sure whether previous code had made sure that the argument is a binary, it does not harm to add an is_binary/1 test immediately before the call to byte_size/1.
Own Id: OTP-18432 Aux Id: GH-6672,PR-6793,PR-6784,PR-6787,PR-6785,PR-6682,PR-6800,PR-6797,PR-6798,PR-6799,PR-6796,PR-6813,PR-6671,PR-6673,PR-6684,PR-6694,GH-6677,PR-6696,PR-6670,PR-6674

SSL 10.8.7

Improvements and New Features

Maximize compatibility by ignoring change_cipher_spec during handshake even if middle_box_mode is not negotiated (mandated by client)
Own Id: OTP-18433 Aux Id: GH-6772
Move assert of middlebox message after an hello_retry_request to maximize interoperability. Does not changes semantics of the protocol only allows unexpected message delay from server.
Own Id: OTP-18467 Aux Id: GH-6807

SSL 10.8.6

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

With this change, tls_sender process is hibernated after sufficient inactivity.
Own Id: OTP-18314 Aux Id: GH-6373
Correct handling of legacy schemes so that ECDSA certs using sha1 may be used for some TLS-1.3 configurations.
Own Id: OTP-18332 Aux Id: GH-6435, PR-6435, ERL-6435
With this change, tls_sender does not cause logger crash upon key update.
Own Id: OTP-18349

Improvements and New Features

Enhance warning message
Own Id: OTP-18257 Aux Id: GH-6307
Provide server option to make certificate_authorities extension in the TLS-1.3 servers certificate request optional. This will allow clients to send incomplete chains that may be reconstructable and thereby verifiable by the server, but that would not adhere to the certificate_authorities extension.
Own Id: OTP-18267 Aux Id: PR-6228, GH-6106
If the verify_fun handles four arguments the DER cert will be supplied as one of the arguments.
Own Id: OTP-18302 Aux Id: ERIERL-867

SSL 10.8.5

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fixes handling of symlinks in cacertfile option.
Own Id: OTP-18266 Aux Id: GH-6328

SSL 10.8.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Reject unexpected application data in all relevant places for all TLS versions. Also, handle TLS-1.3 middlebox compatibility with more care. This will make malicious connections fail early and further, mitigate possible DoS attacks, that would be caught by the handshake timeout.
Thanks to Aina Toky Rasoamanana and Olivier Levillain from Télécom SudParis for alerting us of the issues in our implementation.
Own Id: OTP-18044
With this change, value of cacertfile option will be adjusted before loading certs from the file. Adjustments include converting relative paths to absolute and converting symlinks to actual file path.
Thanks to Marcus Johansson
Own Id: OTP-18099 Aux Id: PR-6287
In TLS-1.3, if chain certs are missing (so server auth domain adherence can not be determined) send peer cert and hope the server is able to recreate a chain in its auth domain.
Own Id: OTP-18191 Aux Id: GH-6105
Make sure periodical refresh of CA certificate files repopulates cache properly.
Own Id: OTP-18195
Correct internal CRL cache functions to use internal format consistently.
Own Id: OTP-18203 Aux Id: PR-5996
Incorrect handling of client middlebox negotiation for TLS-1.3 could result in that a TLS-1.3 server would not use middlebox mode although the client was expecting it too and failing the negotiation with unexpected message.
Own Id: OTP-18219 Aux Id: GH-6241, PR-6249
If the "User" process, the process starting the TLS connection, gets killed in the middle of spawning the dynamic connection tree make sure we do not leave any processes behind.
Own Id: OTP-18233 Aux Id: GH-6244, PR-6270

Improvements and New Features

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected. It is registered as CVE-2022-37026 "Client Authentication Bypass". Corrections have been released on the supported tracks with patches 23.3.4.15, 24.3.4.2, and 25.0.2. The vulnerability might also exist in older OTP versions. We recommend that impacted users upgrade to one of these versions or later on the respective tracks. OTP 25.1 would be an even better choice. Impacted are those who are running an ssl/tls/dtls server using the ssl application either directly or indirectly via other applications. For example via inets (httpd), cowboy, etc. Note that the vulnerability only affects servers that request client certification, that is sets the option {verify, verify_peer}.
Own Id: OTP-18241

SSL 10.8.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

The link to crypto:engine_load refered the function with wrong arity.
Own Id: OTP-18173

SSL 10.8.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Improved handling of unexpected messages during the handshake, taking the right action for unexpected messages.
Own Id: OTP-18145

SSL 10.8.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

When a TLS-1.3 enabled client tried to talk to a TLS-1.2 server that coalesces TLS-1.2 handshake message over one TLS record, the connection could fail due to some message being handled in the wrong state, this has been fixed.
Own Id: OTP-18087 Aux Id: GH-5961
Correctly handles supported protocol version change from default to something else by sni_fun supplied to ssl:handshake/[2,3] together with a TCP-socket (so called upgrade).
Own Id: OTP-18100 Aux Id: GH-5985
Also, TLS-1.3 should respond with a protocol version alert if previous versions, that are supported but not configured, are attempted.
Own Id: OTP-18129 Aux Id: GH-5950

SSL 10.8

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

When a TLS-1.3 enabled client tried to talk to a TLS-1.2 server that coalesces TLS-1.2 handshake message over one TLS record, the connection could fail due to some message being handled in the wrong state, this has been fixed.
Own Id: OTP-18087 Aux Id: GH-5961
Fixed tls-1.3 session ticket lifetime which was discarded to quickly before.
Own Id: OTP-18092 Aux Id: PR-5959

Improvements and New Features

With this change, it is possible to provide several certificates. Most appropriate will be selected based on negotiated properties.
Own Id: OTP-15993 Aux Id: GH-4143
Add options for users to be able to set spawn_opts for TLS processes (sender and receiver) this may be useful for tuning trade-offs between CPU and Memory usage.
Own Id: OTP-17855 Aux Id: PR-5328
Allow key file passwords to be input as a single binary, that is we change the data type to be the more for the purpose logical data type iodata() instead of string().
Own Id: OTP-17890
Logging enhancement, add location information to the warning log message.
Own Id: OTP-18000 Aux Id: PR-5790
Now also accepts the signature_algs_cert option in TLS-1.2 configuration.
Own Id: OTP-18014
Handle certificate selection correctly for server fallback and certificate authorities considerations.
Own Id: OTP-18045 Aux Id: ERIERL-792, OTP-15993
Enhance handling of handshake decoding errors, especially for certificate authorities extension to ensure graceful termination.
Own Id: OTP-18085

SSL 10.7.3.9

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

When a client initiated renegotiation was rejected and the client socket was in active mode the expected error message to the controlling process was not sent.
Own Id: OTP-18712 Aux Id: GH-7431

SSL 10.7.3.8

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Added keylog information to all protocol versions in ssl:connection_information/2.
Own Id: OTP-18643 Aux Id: ERIERL-932

Improvements and New Features

Add RFC-6083 considerations for DTLS to enable gen_sctp based callback for the transport.
Own Id: OTP-18618 Aux Id: ERIERL-932

SSL 10.7.3.7

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Client signature algorithm list input order is now honored again , it was accidently reversed by a previous fix.
Own Id: OTP-18550

SSL 10.7.3.6

Improvements and New Features

Maximize compatibility by ignoring change_cipher_spec during handshake even if middle_box_mode is not negotiated (mandated by client)
Own Id: OTP-18433 Aux Id: GH-6772
Move assert of middlebox message after an hello_retry_request to maximize interoperability. Does not changes semantics of the protocol only allows unexpected message delay from server.
Own Id: OTP-18467 Aux Id: GH-6807

SSL 10.7.3.5

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fixes handling of symlinks in cacertfile option.
Own Id: OTP-18266 Aux Id: GH-6328

SSL 10.7.3.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

With this change, value of cacertfile option will be adjusted before loading certs from the file. Adjustments include converting relative paths to absolute and converting symlinks to actual file path.
Thanks to Marcus Johansson
Own Id: OTP-18099 Aux Id: PR-6287
Incorrect handling of client middlebox negotiation for TLS-1.3 could result in that a TLS-1.3 server would not use middlebox mode although the client was expecting it too and failing the negotiation with unexpected message.
Own Id: OTP-18219 Aux Id: GH-6241, PR-6249
If the "User" process, the process starting the TLS connection, gets killed in the middle of spawning the dynamic connection tree make sure we do not leave any processes behind.
Own Id: OTP-18233 Aux Id: GH-6244, PR-6270

SSL 10.7.3.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Reject unexpected application data in all relevant places for all TLS versions. Also, handle TLS-1.3 middlebox compatibility with more care. This will make malicious connections fail early and further, mitigate possible DoS attacks, that would be caught by the handshake timeout.
Thanks to Aina Toky Rasoamanana and Olivier Levillain from Télécom SudParis for alerting us of the issues in our implementation.
Own Id: OTP-18044
The link to crypto:engine_load refered the function with wrong arity.
Own Id: OTP-18173
Make sure periodical refresh of CA certificate files repopulates cache properly.
Own Id: OTP-18195

SSL 10.7.3.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Improved handling of unexpected messages during the handshake, taking the right action for unexpected messages.
Own Id: OTP-18145

SSL 10.7.3.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

When a TLS-1.3 enabled client tried to talk to a TLS-1.2 server that coalesces TLS-1.2 handshake message over one TLS record, the connection could fail due to some message being handled in the wrong state, this has been fixed.
Own Id: OTP-18087 Aux Id: GH-5961
Fixed tls-1.3 session ticket lifetime which was discarded to quickly before.
Own Id: OTP-18092 Aux Id: PR-5959
Correctly handles supported protocol version change from default to something else by sni_fun supplied to ssl:handshake/[2,3] together with a TCP-socket (so called upgrade).
Own Id: OTP-18100 Aux Id: GH-5985
Also, TLS-1.3 should respond with a protocol version alert if previous versions, that are supported but not configured, are attempted.
Own Id: OTP-18129 Aux Id: GH-5950

Improvements and New Features

Enhance handling of handshake decoding errors, especially for certificate authorities extension to ensure graceful termination.
Own Id: OTP-18085

SSL 10.7.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Client certification could fail if TLS-1.3 enabled client negotiated TLS-1.2 connection with the server, this is due to the wrong version being used when decoding the certificate request message from the server.
Own Id: OTP-18028 Aux Id: GH-5835
socket option packet_size was not handled in ssl:setops/2 and ssl:getotps/2
Own Id: OTP-18062 Aux Id: GH-5898
Remove legacy code to fix interoperability with new socket inet_backend.
Own Id: OTP-18071 Aux Id: GH-5930

SSL 10.7.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

With this change, potential hanging of pre TLS1.3 client receiving OSCP staple message is avoided.
Own Id: OTP-17994

SSL 10.7.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Client certification could fail for TLS-1.3 servers that did not include the certificate_authorities extension in its certificate request message.
Own Id: OTP-17971 Aux Id: GH-5783

SSL 10.7

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Improved error handling.
Own Id: OTP-17759 Aux Id: GH-5367
Before this change, net_kernel used with TLS distribution might be leaking processes in case of connectivity issues.
Own Id: OTP-17815 Aux Id: GH-5332
Fix makefile dependency bugs.
Own Id: OTP-17847 Aux Id: PR-5574 GH-5548
Make sure the TLS sender process handles explicit calls to erlang:disconnect_node properly, avoiding potential hanging problems in net_kernel.
Own Id: OTP-17929 Aux Id: GH-5708

Improvements and New Features

Add support for TLS-1.3 certificate_authorities extension. And process certificate_authorities field in pre-TLS-1.3 certificate requests.
Own Id: OTP-15719
Support password fun for protected keyfiles in ssl:connect function.
Own Id: OTP-17816 Aux Id: PR-5607
Add in some cases earlier detection of possible DoS attacks by malicious clients sending unexpected TLS messages instead of the client hello. Note that such attacks are already mitigated by providing a timeout for the TLS handshake.
Own Id: OTP-17903

SSL 10.6.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Improve SNI (server name indication) handling so that protocol version can be selected with regards to SNI. Also, make sure that ssl:connection_information/1 returns the correct SNI value.
Own Id: OTP-17794 Aux Id: GH-5341, GH-4450
Fixed cipher suite listing functions so that the listing of all cipher suites will be complete. Another fix for cipher suite handling in OTP-24.1 accidentally excludes a few cipher suites from the listing of all cipher suites.
Own Id: OTP-17829 Aux Id: ERIERL-708
Reenable legacy cipher suite TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA for explicit configuration in TLS-1.2, not supported by default.
Own Id: OTP-17879 Aux Id: GH-5624

Improvements and New Features

Avoid unnecessary logs by better adjusting the tls_sender process to the new supervisor structure in OTP-24.2
Own Id: OTP-17831

SSL 10.6

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Allow re-connect on DTLS sockets
Can happen when a computer reboots and connects from the same client port without the server noticing should be allowed according to RFC.
Own Id: OTP-17411 Aux Id: ERL-1203, GH-4393
Fix tls and non-tls distribution to use erl_epmd:address_please to figure out if IPv4 or IPv6 addresses should be used when connecting to the remote node.
Before this fix, a dns lookup of the remote node hostname determined which IP version was to be used which meant that the hostname had to resolve to a valid ip address.
Own Id: OTP-17809 Aux Id: PR-5337 GH-5334

Improvements and New Features

Use supervisor significant child to manage tls connection process and tls sender process dependency.
Own Id: OTP-17417
Random generation adjustment for TLS1.3
Own Id: OTP-17699
Allow any {03,XX} TLS record version in the client hello for maximum interoperability
Own Id: OTP-17761 Aux Id: GH-5380

SSL 10.5.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct typo of ECC curve name in signature algorithm handling. Will make the signature algorithm ecdsa_secp521r1_sha512 succeed.
Own Id: OTP-17756 Aux Id: GH-5383, PR-5397
Suppress authenticity warning when option verify_none is explicitly supplied.
Own Id: OTP-17757 Aux Id: GH-5352, PR-5395

SSL 10.5.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix TLS-1.2 RSA-PSS negotiation and also fix broken certificate request message for pre-TLS-1.3 servers.
Own Id: OTP-17688 Aux Id: GH-5255
Fix CRL issuer verification that under some circumstances could fail with a function_clause error.
Own Id: OTP-17723 Aux Id: GH-5300

SSL 10.5.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Before that change, TLS downgrade could occasionally fail when data intended for downgraded socket were delivered together with CLOSE_NOTIFY alert to ssl app.
Own Id: OTP-17393
Avoid re-encoding of decoded certificates. This could cause unexpected failures as some subtle encoding errors can be tolerated when decoding but hence creating another sequence of bytes if the decoded value is re-encoded.
Own Id: OTP-17657
Fix possible process leak when the process doing ssl:transport_accept dies before initiating the TLS handshake.
Own Id: OTP-17666 Aux Id: GH-5239
Fix dtls memory leak, the replay window code was broken.
Own Id: OTP-17670 Aux Id: GH-5224

SSL 10.5

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix Makefile dependency generation to work no matter what the ERL_TOP folder is called.
Own Id: OTP-17423 Aux Id: GH-4823 PR-4829
If trying to downgrade a TLS-1.3 connection to a plain TCP connection, possible TLS-1.3 session ticket messages will be ignored in the "downgrade" state while waiting for the close notify alert.
Own Id: OTP-17517 Aux Id: GH-5009
Corrected error handling to correctly generate an insufficient security alert when there are no suitable groups that can be negotiated in TLS-1.3 instead of crashing resulting in an internal error alert.
Own Id: OTP-17521
Properly handle default session data storage.
When a client tries to reuse an expired session the default server storage handling would crash losing other session data. This would cause a error report and possible loss of abbreviated handshakes.
Own Id: OTP-17635 Aux Id: GH-5192

Improvements and New Features

Add support for RSA-PSS-PSS signatures and signature_algorithms_cert in TLS-1.2. This is a TLS-1.3 RFC requirement to backport this functionality.
Own Id: OTP-16590 Aux Id: ERL-625, GH-5029
Use inet:monitor/1 to monitor listen-sockets so that we are compatible with the new socket backend for gen_tcp.
Own Id: OTP-17392 Aux Id: PR-5050
Enhance ssl:prf/4 handling and testing
Own Id: OTP-17464
Enhanced cipher suite filtering functionality, making sure TLS-1.3 and TLS-1.2 cipher suites can be supported correctly together even when TLS-1.2 anonymous ciphers are included.
Own Id: OTP-17501 Aux Id: GH-4978
Enhance gracefulness especially in TLS-1.3
Own Id: OTP-17530

SSL 10.4.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Handle cross-signed root certificates when old root expired as reported in GH-4877.
Own Id: OTP-17475 Aux Id: GH-4877
The signature selection algorithm has been changed to also verify if the client supports signatures using the elliptic curve of the server's public/private key pair. This change fixes #4958.
Own Id: OTP-17529 Aux Id: PR-4979, GH-4958

Improvements and New Features

Slight optimization of certificate decoding.
Own Id: OTP-17150 Aux Id: GH-4877

SSL 10.4.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix cache invalidation problem for CA certs provided by the cacertfile option.
Own Id: OTP-17435 Aux Id: ERIERL-653

SSL 10.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Missing runtime dependencies has been added to this application.
Own Id: OTP-17243 Aux Id: PR-4557
TLS handshake should fail if OCSP staple is requested but missing. Note that OCSP support is still considered experimental and only partially implemented.
Own Id: OTP-17343

Improvements and New Features

Removed ssl:ssl_accept/1,2,3 and ssl:cipher:suites/0,1 use ssl:handshake/1,2,3 and ssl:cipher_suites/2,3 instead.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-16974
Make TLS handshakes in Erlang distribution concurrent.
Own Id: OTP-17044 Aux Id: PR-2654
Randomize internal {active,n} optimization when running Erlang distribution over TLS to spread RAM/CPU spike that may occur when starting up a big cluster.
Own Id: OTP-17117 Aux Id: PR-2933
TLS connections now support EdDSA certificates.
Own Id: OTP-17142 Aux Id: PR-4756, GH-4637, GH-4650
Enhance documentation and logging of certificate handling.
Own Id: OTP-17384 Aux Id: GH-4800

SSL 10.3.1.5

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct corner case of unexpected message handling for pre TLS-1.3 versions, could cause "late failure" and make the server dependent on its handshake timeout to prevent possible DoS attacks.
Own Id: OTP-18224

SSL 10.3.1.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

The link to crypto:engine_load refered the function with wrong arity.
Own Id: OTP-18173

SSL 10.3.1.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Improved handling of unexpected messages during the handshake, taking the right action for unexpected messages.
Own Id: OTP-18145

SSL 10.3.1.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Handle cross-signed root certificates when old root expired as reported in GH-4877.
Own Id: OTP-17475 Aux Id: GH-4877
The signature selection algorithm has been changed to also verify if the client supports signatures using the elliptic curve of the server's public/private key pair. This change fixes #4958.
Own Id: OTP-17529 Aux Id: PR-4979, GH-4958

Improvements and New Features

Slight optimization of certificate decoding.
Own Id: OTP-17150 Aux Id: GH-4877

SSL 10.3.1.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix cache invalidation problem for CA certs provided by the cacertfile option.
Own Id: OTP-17435 Aux Id: ERIERL-653

SSL 10.3.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Retain backwards compatible behavior of verify_fun when handling incomplete chains that are not verifiable.
Own Id: OTP-17296 Aux Id: GH-4682
Avoid server session handler crash, this will increase session ruse opportunities.
Own Id: OTP-17348 Aux Id: ERIERL-641

SSL 10.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix CRL handling that previously could fail to find the issuer cert under some circumstances.
Own Id: OTP-17261 Aux Id: GH-4589
TLS-1.3 client could, under some circumstances, select an incorrect algorithm to sign the certificate verification message causing a TLS Decrypt Alert being issued by the server.
Own Id: OTP-17281 Aux Id: GH-4620
Correct handling of default values for emulated socket options and retain the order of the ssl options list to ensure backwards compatible behavior if options should be set more than once.
Own Id: OTP-17282

Improvements and New Features

Enhance pre TLS-1.3 session handling so the client and server side handling is completely separated and client disregards oldest session when reaching max limit of the session table.
Own Id: OTP-16876
This change implements the early data feature for TLS 1.3 clients.
TLS 1.3 allows clients to send data in the first flight using a Pre-Shared Key to authenticate the server and to encrypt the early data.
Own Id: OTP-16985
This change implements the early data feature for TLS 1.3 servers.
Own Id: OTP-17042

SSL 10.2.4.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Improved handling of unexpected messages during the handshake, taking the right action for unexpected messages.
Own Id: OTP-18145

SSL 10.2.4.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix cache invalidation problem for CA certs provided by the cacertfile option.
Own Id: OTP-17435 Aux Id: ERIERL-653

SSL 10.2.4.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix handling of emulated socket options, the previous patch was incomplete,
Own Id: OTP-17305

SSL 10.2.4.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Backport of OTP-17282
Correct handling of default values for emulated socket options and retain the order of the ssl options list to ensure backwards compatible behavior if options should be set more than once.
Own Id: OTP-17289 Aux Id: GH-4585

SSL 10.2.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Enhance logging option log_level to support none and all, also restore backwards compatibility for log_alert option.
Own Id: OTP-17228 Aux Id: ERIERL-614

SSL 10.2.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Avoid race when the first two upgrade server handshakes (that is servers that use a gen_tcp socket as input to ssl:handshake/2,3) start close to each other. Could lead to that one of the handshakes would fail.
Own Id: OTP-17190 Aux Id: ERIERL-606

SSL 10.2.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Avoid that upgrade (from TCP to TLS) servers starts multiple session cache handlers for the same server. This applies to Erlang distribution over TLS servers.
Own Id: OTP-17139 Aux Id: ERL-1458, OTP-16239
Legacy cipher suites defined before TLS-1.2 (but still supported) should be possible to use in TLS-1.2. They where accidentally excluded for available cipher suites for TLS-1.2 in OTP-23.2.2.
Own Id: OTP-17174 Aux Id: ERIERL-597

Improvements and New Features

Enable Erlang distribution over TLS to run TLS-1.3, although TLS-1.2 will still be default.
Own Id: OTP-16239 Aux Id: ERL-1458, OTP-17139

SSL 10.2.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix CVE-2020-35733 this only affects ssl-10.2 (OTP-23.2). This vulnerability could enable a man in the middle attack using a fake chain to a known trusted ROOT. Also limits alternative chain handling, for handling of possibly extraneous certs, to improve memory management.
Own Id: OTP-17098

Improvements and New Features

Add support for AES CCM based cipher suites defined in RFC 7251
Also Correct cipher suite name conversion to OpenSSL names. A few names where corrected earlier in OTP-16267 For backwards compatible reasons we support usage of openSSL names for cipher suites. Mostly anonymous suites names where incorrect, but also some legacy suites.
Own Id: OTP-17100

SSL 10.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

SSL's Erlang Distribution Protocol modules inet_tls_dist and inet6_tls_dist lacked a callback function, so the start flag "-dist_listen false" did not work, which has now been fixed.
Own Id: OTP-15126 Aux Id: ERL-1375
Correct OpenSSL names for newer cipher suites using DHE in their name that accidentally got the wrong value when fixing other older names using EDH instead.
Own Id: OTP-16267 Aux Id: ERIERL-571, ERIERL-477
This change improves the handling of DTLS listening dockets, making it possible to open multiple listeners on the same port with different IP addresses.
Own Id: OTP-16849 Aux Id: ERL-1339
Fix a bug that causes cross-build failure.
This change excludes the ssl.d dependency file from the source tarballs.
Own Id: OTP-16921
This change fixes ssl:peername/1 when called on a DTLS client socket.
Own Id: OTP-16923 Aux Id: ERL-1341, PR-2786
Retain emulation of active once on a closed socket to behave as before 23.1
Own Id: OTP-17018 Aux Id: ERL-1409
Corrected server session cache entry deletion pre TLS-1.3. May increase session reuse.
Own Id: OTP-17019 Aux Id: ERL-1412

Improvements and New Features

Handle extraneous certs in certificate chains as well as chains that are incomplete but can be reconstructed or unordered chains. The cert and certfile options will now accept a list of certificates so that the user may specify the chain explicitly.
Also, the default value of the depth option has been increased to allow longer chains by default.
Own Id: OTP-16277
This change implements optional NSS-style keylog in ssl:connection_information/2 for debugging purposes.
The keylog contains various TLS secrets that can be loaded in Wireshark to decrypt TLS packets.
Own Id: OTP-16445 Aux Id: PR-2823
Use new gen_statem feature of changing callback mode to improve code maintainability.
Own Id: OTP-16529
The handling of Service Name Indication has been aligned with RFC8446.
Own Id: OTP-16762
Add explicit session reuse option to TLS clients for pre TLS-1.3 sessions. Also, add documentation to Users Guide for such sessions.
Own Id: OTP-16893

SSL 10.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

If a passive socket is created, ssl:recv/2,3 is never called and then the peer closes the socket the controlling process will no longer receive an active close message.
Own Id: OTP-16697 Aux Id: ERIERL-496
Data deliver with ssl:recv/2,3 could fail for when using packet mode. This has been fixed by correcting the flow control handling of passive sockets when packet mode is used.
Own Id: OTP-16764
This change fixes a potential man-in-the-middle vulnerability when the ssl client is configured to automatically handle session tickets ({session_tickets, auto}).
Own Id: OTP-16765
Fix the internal handling of options 'verify' and 'verify_fun'.
This change fixes a vulnerability when setting the ssl option 'verify' to verify_peer in a continued handshake won't take any effect resulting in the acceptance of expired peer certificates.
Own Id: OTP-16767 Aux Id: ERIERL-512
This change fixes the handling of stateless session tickets when anti-replay is enabled.
Own Id: OTP-16776 Aux Id: ERL-1316
Fix a crash due to the faulty handling of stateful session tickets received by servers expecting stateless session tickets.
This change also improves the handling of faulty/invalid tickets.
Own Id: OTP-16777 Aux Id: ERL-1317
Correct flow ctrl checks from OTP-16764 to work as intended. Probably will not have a noticeable affect but will make connections more well behaved under some circumstances.
Own Id: OTP-16837 Aux Id: ERL-1319, OTP-16764
Distribution over TLS could exhibit livelock-like behaviour when there is a constant stream of distribution messages. Distribution data is now chunked every 16 Mb to avoid that.
Own Id: OTP-16851 Aux Id: PR-2703

Improvements and New Features

Implement the cookie extension for TLS 1.3.
Own Id: OTP-15855
Experimental OCSP client support.
Own Id: OTP-16448
TLS 1.0 -TLS-1.2 sessions tables now have a absolute max value instead of using a shrinking mechanism when reaching the limit. To avoid out of memory problems under heavy load situations. Note that this change infers that implementations of ssl_session_cache_api needs to implement the size function (introduce in OTP 19) for session reuse to be optimally utilized.
Own Id: OTP-16802 Aux Id: ERIERL-516

SSL 10.0

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix a bug that causes cross-build failure.
This change excludes the ssl.d dependency file from the source tar balls.
Own Id: OTP-16562 Aux Id: ERL-1168
Correct translation of OpenSSL legacy names for two legacy cipher suites
Own Id: OTP-16573 Aux Id: ERIERL-477
Correct documentation for PSK identity and SRP username.
Own Id: OTP-16585
Make sure client hostname check is run when client uses its own verify_fun
Own Id: OTP-16626 Aux Id: ERL-1232
Improved signature selection mechanism in TLS 1.3 for increased interoperability.
Own Id: OTP-16638 Aux Id: ERL-1206

Improvements and New Features

Drop support for SSL-3.0. Support for this legacy TLS version has not been enabled by default since OTP 19. Now all code to support it has been removed, that is SSL-3.0 protocol version can not be used and is considered invalid.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-14790
Added support for RSA-PSS signature schemes
Own Id: OTP-15247
Improve interoperability by implementing the middlebox compatibility mode.
The middlebox compatibility mode makes the TLS 1.3 handshake look more like a TLS 1.2 handshake and increases the chance of successfully establishing TLS 1.3 connections through legacy middleboxes.
Own Id: OTP-15589
Utilize new properties of erlang:dist_ctrl_get_data() for performance improvement of Erlang distribution over TLS.
Own Id: OTP-16127 Aux Id: OTP-15618
Calls of deprecated functions in the Old Crypto API are replaced by calls of their substitutions.
Own Id: OTP-16346
Implement cipher suite TLS_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256.
Own Id: OTP-16391
This change adds TLS-1.3 to the list of default supported versions. That is, TLS-1.3 and TLS-1.2 are configured when ssl option 'versions' is not explicitly set.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-16400
Refactored the internal handling of deprecated and removed functions.
Own Id: OTP-16469
Extended ssl:versions so that it lists supported, available and implemented TLS/DTLS versions.
Own Id: OTP-16519
Added new option exclusive for ssl:cipher_suites/2,3
Own Id: OTP-16532
Avoid DoS attack against stateful session_tickets by making session ticket ids unpredictable.
Own Id: OTP-16533
Add support for the max_fragment_length extension (RFC 6066).
Own Id: OTP-16547 Aux Id: PR-2547
Add srp_username in ssl:connection_info, update the document with types of this function.
Own Id: OTP-16584

SSL 9.6.2.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct flow ctrl checks from OTP-16764 to work as intended. Probably will not have a noticeable affect but will make connections more well behaved under some circumstances.
Own Id: OTP-16837 Aux Id: ERL-1319, OTP-16764
Fix a bug that causes cross-build failure.
This change excludes the ssl.d dependency file from the source tar balls.
Own Id: OTP-16921

SSL 9.6.2.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Data deliver with ssl:recv/2,3 could fail for when using packet mode. This has been fixed by correcting the flow control handling of passive sockets when packet mode is used.
Own Id: OTP-16764
Fix the internal handling of options 'verify' and 'verify_fun'.
This change fixes a vulnerability when setting the ssl option 'verify' to verify_peer in a continued handshake won't take any effect resulting in the acceptance of expired peer certificates.
Own Id: OTP-16767 Aux Id: ERIERL-512

SSL 9.6.2.1

Improvements and New Features

If a passive socket is created, ssl:recv/2,3 is never called and then the peer closes the socket the controlling process will no longer receive an active close message.
Own Id: OTP-16697 Aux Id: ERIERL-496

SSL 9.6.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix timing bug that could cause ssl sockets to become unresponsive after an ssl:recv/3 call timed out
Own Id: OTP-16619 Aux Id: ERL-1213

SSL 9.6.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct error handling when the partial_chain fun claims a certificate to be the trusted cert that is not part of the chain. This bug would hide the appropriate alert generating an "INTERNAL_ERROR" alert instead.
Own Id: OTP-16567 Aux Id: ERIERL-481

SSL 9.6

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct handling of TLS record limit in TLS-1.3. The max value differs from previous versions. Also the payload data max record check was broken, that is record overflow problems could occur if user sent large amounts of data.
Own Id: OTP-16258
Correct close handling for DTLS
Own Id: OTP-16348 Aux Id: ERL-1110
Fix ssl:getstat/1-2 to also work for DTLS sockets
Own Id: OTP-16352 Aux Id: ERL-1099
Correct internal handling och socket active mode to avoid reviving TCP data aimed for a downgraded TLS socket.
Own Id: OTP-16425
When using the host name as fallback for SNI (server name indication) strip a possible trailing dot that is allowed in a host name but not in the SNI. Also if the server receives a SNI with a trailing dot send an UNRECOGNIZED_NAME alert.
Own Id: OTP-16437 Aux Id: ERL-1135
Immediately remove session entries if handshake is abruptly closed at transport level.
Own Id: OTP-16479

Improvements and New Features

Implementation of the key and initialization vector update feature, and general hardening of TLS 1.3.
There are cryptographic limits on the amount of plaintext which can be safely encrypted under a given set of keys.
This change enforces those limits by triggering automatic key updates on TLS 1.3 connections.
Own Id: OTP-15856
Add support for TLS 1.3 Session Tickets (stateful and stateless). This allows session resumption using keying material from a previous successful handshake.
Own Id: OTP-16253
Add support for key exchange with Edward curves and PSS-RSA padding in signature verification.
Own Id: OTP-16528

SSL 9.5.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Enhance error handling, all ALERTS shall be handled gracefully and not cause a crash.
Own Id: OTP-16413 Aux Id: ERL-1136
Enhance alert logging, in some places the role indication of the alert origin was missing. So the log would say undefined instead of client or server.
Own Id: OTP-16424
Two different optimizations did not work together and resulted in the possible breakage of connections using stream ciphers (that is RC4). Reworked the implementation to avoid this.
Own Id: OTP-16426 Aux Id: ERL-1136

SSL 9.5.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix the handling of GREASE values sent by web browsers when establishing TLS 1.3 connections. This change improves handling of GREASE values in various protocol elements sent in a TLS 1.3 ClientHello.
Own Id: OTP-16388 Aux Id: ERL-1130
Correct DTLS listen emulation, could cause problems with opening a new DTLS listen socket for a port previously used by a now closed DTLS listen socket.
Own Id: OTP-16396 Aux Id: ERL-1118

SSL 9.5.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Add missing alert handling clause for TLS record handling. Could sometimes cause confusing error behaviors of TLS connections.
Own Id: OTP-16357 Aux Id: ERL-1166
Fix handling of ssl:recv that happens during a renegotiation. Using the passive receive function ssl:recv/[2,3] during a renegotiation would fail the connection with unexpected msg.
Own Id: OTP-16361

SSL 9.5

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Corrected CRL handling which could cause CRL verification to fail. This could happen when the CRL distribution point explicitly specifies the CRL issuer, that is not using the fallback.
Own Id: OTP-16156 Aux Id: ERL-1030
Correct handling of unordered chains so that it works as expected
Own Id: OTP-16293
Fix bug causing ssl application to crash when handshake is paused and ClientHello contains extensions for session resumption (psk_key_exchange_modes, pre_shared_key).
Own Id: OTP-16295 Aux Id: ERL-1095
Fix connectivity problems with legacy servers when client is configured to support a range of protocol versions including TLS 1.3.
Own Id: OTP-16303

Improvements and New Features

Improve session handling for TLS-1.3 compatibility mode and cleaner internal handling so that removal of old session data can be more efficient, hopefully mitigating problems with big session tables during heavy load.
Own Id: OTP-15524 Aux Id: OTP-15352
Correct handling of DTLS listen socket emulation. Could cause failure to create new listen socket after process that owned previous listen socket died.
Own Id: OTP-15809 Aux Id: ERL-917
Add detailed info in ALERT description when client does not send a requested cert.
Own Id: OTP-16266

SSL 9.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Handling of zero size fragments in TLS could cause an infinite loop. This has now been corrected.
Own Id: OTP-15328 Aux Id: ERIERL-379
DTLS record check needs to consider that a resent hello message can have a different version than the negotiated.
Own Id: OTP-15807 Aux Id: ERL-920

Improvements and New Features

Basic support for TLS 1.3 Client for experimental use. For more information see the Standards Compliance chapter of the User's Guide.
Own Id: OTP-15431
Correct solution for retaining tcp flow control OTP-15802 (ERL-934) as to not break ssl:recv as reported in (ERL-938)
Own Id: OTP-15823 Aux Id: ERL-934, ERL-938
Enhance dialyzer specs to reflect implementation better and avoid dialyzer warnings for the user that wants to use TLS with unix domain sockets.
Own Id: OTP-15851 Aux Id: PR-2235
Add support for ECDSA signature algorithms in TLS 1.3.
Own Id: OTP-15854
Correct error handling of TLS downgrade, possible return values form ssl:close/2 when downgrading is {ok, Port} or {error, Reason}, it could happen that only ok was returned instead of {error, closed} when downgrade failed due to that the peer closed the TCP connection.
Own Id: OTP-16027

SSL 9.3.5

Improvements and New Features

Enhance error handling for erroneous alerts from the peer.
Own Id: OTP-15943

SSL 9.3.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix handling of certificate decoding problems in TLS 1.3 similarly as in TLS 1.2.
Own Id: OTP-15900
Hibernation now works as expected in all cases, was accidentally broken by optimization efforts.
Own Id: OTP-15910
Fix interoperability problems with openssl when the TLS 1.3 server is configured with the option signature_algs_cert.
Own Id: OTP-15913

SSL 9.3.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct handshake handling, might cause strange symptoms such as ASN.1 certificate decoding issues.
Own Id: OTP-15879 Aux Id: ERL-968
Fix handling of the signature_algorithms_cert extension in the ClientHello handshake message.
Own Id: OTP-15887 Aux Id: ERL-973
Handle new ClientHello extensions when handshake is paused by the {handshake, hello} ssl option.
Own Id: OTP-15888 Aux Id: ERL-975

SSL 9.3.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Returned "alert error string" is now same as logged alert string
Own Id: OTP-15844
Fix returned extension map fields to follow the documentation.
Own Id: OTP-15862 Aux Id: ERL-951
Avoid DTLS crash due to missing gen_server return value in DTLS packet demux process.
Own Id: OTP-15864 Aux Id: ERL-962

SSL 9.3.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Missing check of size of user_data_buffer made internal socket behave as an active socket instead of active N. This could cause memory problems.
Own Id: OTP-15825 Aux Id: ERL-934, OTP-15823

SSL 9.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

The distribution handshake with TLS distribution (inet_tls_dist) does now utilize the socket option {nodelay, true}, which decreases the distribution setup time significantly.
Own Id: OTP-14792
Correct shutdown reason to avoid an incorrect crash report
Own Id: OTP-15710 Aux Id: ERL-893
Enhance documentation and type specifications.
Own Id: OTP-15746 Aux Id: ERIERL-333

Improvements and New Features

TLS-1.0, TLS-1.1 and DTLS-1.0 are now considered legacy and not supported by default
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-14865
Use new logger API in ssl. Introduce log levels and verbose debug logging for SSL.
Own Id: OTP-15055
Add new API function str_to_suite/1, cipher_suites/3 (list cipher suites as rfc or OpenSSL name strings) and suite_to_openssl_str/1
Own Id: OTP-15483 Aux Id: ERL-924
Basic support for TLS 1.3 Server for experimental use. The client is not yet functional, for more information see the Standards Compliance chapter of the User's Guide.
Own Id: OTP-15591
Add support for PSK CCM ciphers from RFC 6655
Own Id: OTP-15626

SSL 9.2.3.7

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Data deliver with ssl:recv/2,3 could fail for when using packet mode. This has been fixed by correcting the flow control handling of passive sockets when packet mode is used.
Own Id: OTP-16764

SSL 9.2.3.6

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix timing bug that could cause ssl sockets to become unresponsive after an ssl:recv/3 call timed out
Own Id: OTP-16619 Aux Id: ERL-1213

SSL 9.2.3.5

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Handling of zero size fragments in TLS could cause an infinite loop. This has now been corrected.
Own Id: OTP-15328 Aux Id: ERIERL-379

SSL 9.2.3.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Hibernation now works as expected in all cases, was accidentally broken by optimization efforts.
Own Id: OTP-15910

SSL 9.2.3.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct handshake handling, might cause strange symptoms such as ASN.1 certificate decoding issues.
Own Id: OTP-15879 Aux Id: ERL-968

SSL 9.2.3.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Returned "alert error string" is now same as logged alert string
Own Id: OTP-15844

SSL 9.2.3.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct solution for retaining tcp flow control OTP-15802 (ERL-934) as to not break ssl:recv as reported in (ERL-938)
Own Id: OTP-15823 Aux Id: ERL-934, ERL-938

SSL 9.2.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Missing check of size of user_data_buffer made internal socket behave as an active socket instead of active N. This could cause memory problems.
Own Id: OTP-15802 Aux Id: ERL-934

Improvements and New Features

Back port of bug fix ERL-893 from OTP-22 and document enhancements that will solve dialyzer warnings for users of the ssl application.
This change also affects public_key, eldap (and inet doc).
Own Id: OTP-15785 Aux Id: ERL-929, ERL-893, PR-2215

SSL 9.2.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

With the default BEAST Mitigation strategy for TLS 1.0 an empty TLS fragment could be sent after a one-byte fragment. This glitch has been fixed.
Own Id: OTP-15054 Aux Id: ERIERL-346

SSL 9.2.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

The timeout for a passive receive was sometimes not cancelled and later caused a server crash. This bug has now been corrected.
Own Id: OTP-14701 Aux Id: ERL-883, ERL-884
Add tag for passive message (active N) in cb_info to retain transport transparency.
Own Id: OTP-15679 Aux Id: ERL-861

SSL 9.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix bug that an incorrect return value for gen_statem could be created when alert was a result of handling renegotiation info extension
Own Id: OTP-15502
Correct check for 3des_ede_cbc, could cause ssl to claim to support 3des_ede_cbc when cryptolib does not.
Own Id: OTP-15539
Improved DTLS error handling, avoids unexpected connection failure in rare cases.
Own Id: OTP-15561
Corrected active once emulation bug that could cause the ssl_closed meassage to not be sent. Bug introduced by OTP-15449
Own Id: OTP-15666 Aux Id: ERIERL-316,

Improvements and New Features

Add client option {reuse_session, SessionID::binary()} that can be used together with new option value {reuse_sessions, save}. This makes it possible to reuse a session from a specific connection establishment.
Own Id: OTP-15369
The Reason part of of the error return from the functions connect and handshake has a better and documented format. This will sometimes differ from previous returned reasons, however those where only documented as term() and should for that reason not be relied on.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-15423
Refactor of state handling to improve TLS application data throughput and reduce CPU overhead
Own Id: OTP-15445
The SSL code has been optimized in many small ways to reduce CPU load for encryption/decryption, especially for Erlang's distribution protocol over TLS.
Own Id: OTP-15529
Add support for active N
Own Id: OTP-15665 Aux Id: ERL-811, PR-2072

SSL 9.1.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix encoding of the SRP extension length field in ssl. The old encoding of the SRP extension length could cause interoperability problems with third party SSL implementations when SRP was used.
Own Id: OTP-15477 Aux Id: ERL-790
Guarantee active once data delivery, handling TCP stream properly.
Own Id: OTP-15504 Aux Id: ERL-371
Correct gen_statem returns for some error cases
Own Id: OTP-15505

SSL 9.1.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fixed renegotiation bug. Client did not handle server initiated renegotiation correctly after rewrite to two connection processes, due to ERL-622 commit d87ac1c55188f5ba5cdf72384125d94d42118c18. This could manifest it self as a " bad_record_mac" alert.
Also included are some optimizations
Own Id: OTP-15489 Aux Id: ERL-308

SSL 9.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

PEM cache was not evicting expired entries due to due to timezone confusion.
Own Id: OTP-15368
Make sure an error is returned if a "transport_accept socket" is used in some other call than ssl:handshake* or ssl:controlling_process
Own Id: OTP-15384 Aux Id: ERL-756
Fix timestamp handling in the PEM-cache could cause entries to not be invalidated at the correct time.
Own Id: OTP-15402
Extend check for undelivered data at closing, could under some circumstances fail to deliver all data that was actually received.
Own Id: OTP-15412 Aux Id: ERL-731
Correct signature check for TLS-1.2 that allows different algorithms for signature of peer cert and peer cert key. Not all allowed combinations where accepted.
Own Id: OTP-15415 Aux Id: ERL-763
Correct gen_statem return value, could cause renegotiation to fail.
Own Id: OTP-15418 Aux Id: ERL-770

Improvements and New Features

Add engine support for RSA key exchange
Own Id: OTP-15420 Aux Id: ERIERL-268
ssl now uses active n internally to boost performance. Old active once behavior can be restored by setting application variable see manual page for ssl application (man 6).
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-15449

SSL 9.0.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct alert handling with new TLS sender process, from ssl-9.0.2. CLOSE ALERTS could under some circumstances be encoded using an incorrect cipher state. This would cause the peer to regard them as unknown messages.
Own Id: OTP-15337 Aux Id: ERL-738
Correct handling of socket packet option with new TLS sender process, from ssl-9.0.2. When changing the socket option {packet, 1|2|3|4} with ssl:setopts/2 the option must internally be propagated to the sender process as well as the reader process as this particular option also affects the data to be sent.
Own Id: OTP-15348 Aux Id: ERL-747

SSL 9.0.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Use separate processes for sending and receiving application data for TLS connections to avoid potential deadlock that was most likely to occur when using TLS for Erlang distribution. Note does not change the API.
Own Id: OTP-15122
Correct handling of empty server SNI extension
Own Id: OTP-15168
Correct PSK cipher suite handling and add selected_cipher_suite to connection information
Own Id: OTP-15172
Adopt to the fact that cipher suite sign restriction are relaxed in TLS-1.2
Own Id: OTP-15173
Enhance error handling of non existing PEM files
Own Id: OTP-15174
Correct close handling of transport accepted sockets in the error state
Own Id: OTP-15216
Correct PEM cache to not add references to empty entries when PEM file does not exist.
Own Id: OTP-15224
Correct handling of all PSK cipher suites
Before only some PSK suites would be correctly negotiated and most PSK ciphers suites would fail the connection.
Own Id: OTP-15285

Improvements and New Features

TLS will now try to order certificate chains if they appear to be unordered. That is prior to TLS 1.3, “certificate_list” ordering was required to be strict, however some implementations already allowed for some flexibility. For maximum compatibility, all implementations SHOULD be prepared to handle potentially extraneous certificates and arbitrary orderings from any TLS version.
Own Id: OTP-12983
TLS will now try to reconstructed an incomplete certificate chains from its local CA-database and use that data for the certificate path validation. This especially makes sense for partial chains as then the peer might not send an intermediate CA as it is considered the trusted root in that case.
Own Id: OTP-15060
Option keyfile defaults to certfile and should be trumped with key. This failed for engine keys.
Own Id: OTP-15193
Error message improvement when own certificate has decoding issues, see also issue ERL-668.
Own Id: OTP-15234
Correct dialyzer spec for key option
Own Id: OTP-15281

SSL 9.0.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct cipher suite handling for ECDHE_*, the incorrect handling could cause an incorrrect suite to be selected and most likely fail the handshake.
Own Id: OTP-15203

SSL 9.0

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct handling of ECDH suites.
Own Id: OTP-14974
Proper handling of clients that choose to send an empty answer to a certificate request
Own Id: OTP-15050

Improvements and New Features

Distribution over SSL (inet_tls) has, to improve performance, been rewritten to not use intermediate processes and ports.
Own Id: OTP-14465
Add support for ECDHE_PSK cipher suites
Own Id: OTP-14547
For security reasons no longer support 3-DES cipher suites by default
* INCOMPATIBILITY with possibly *
Own Id: OTP-14768
For security reasons RSA-key exchange cipher suites are no longer supported by default
* INCOMPATIBILITY with possible *
Own Id: OTP-14769
The interoperability option to fallback to insecure renegotiation now has to be explicitly turned on.
* INCOMPATIBILITY with possibly *
Own Id: OTP-14789
Drop support for SSLv2 enabled clients. SSLv2 has been broken for decades and never supported by the Erlang SSL/TLS implementation. This option was by default disabled and enabling it has proved to sometimes break connections not using SSLv2 enabled clients.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-14824
Remove CHACHA20_POLY1305 ciphers form default for now. We have discovered interoperability problems, ERL-538, that we believe needs to be solved in crypto.
* INCOMPATIBILITY with possibly *
Own Id: OTP-14882
Generalize DTLS packet multiplexing to make it easier to add future DTLS features and uses.
Own Id: OTP-14888
Use uri_string module instead of http_uri.
Own Id: OTP-14902
The SSL distribution protocol -proto inet_tls has stopped setting the SSL option server_name_indication. New verify funs for client and server in inet_tls_dist has been added, not documented yet, that checks node name if present in peer certificate. Usage is still also yet to be documented.
Own Id: OTP-14969 Aux Id: OTP-14465, ERL-598
Deprecate ssl:ssl_accept/[1,2,3] in favour of ssl:handshake/[1,2,3]
Own Id: OTP-15056
Customizes the hostname verification of the peer certificate, as different protocols that use TLS such as HTTP or LDAP may want to do it differently
Own Id: OTP-15102 Aux Id: ERL-542, OTP-14962
Add utility function for converting erlang cipher suites to a string representation (ERL-600).
Own Id: OTP-15106
First version with support for DTLS
Own Id: OTP-15142

SSL 8.2.6.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Add engine support for RSA key exchange
Own Id: OTP-15420

SSL 8.2.6.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Extend check for undelivered data at closing, could under some circumstances fail to deliverd all data that was acctualy recivied.
Own Id: OTP-15412

SSL 8.2.6.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct handling of empty server SNI extension
Own Id: OTP-15168
Correct cipher suite handling for ECDHE_*, the incorrect handling could cause an incorrrect suite to be selected and most likely fail the handshake.
Own Id: OTP-15203

SSL 8.2.6.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Improve cipher suite handling correcting ECC and TLS-1.2 requierments. Backport of solution for ERL-641
Own Id: OTP-15178

Improvements and New Features

Option keyfile defaults to certfile and should be trumped with key. This failed for engine keys.
Own Id: OTP-15193

SSL 8.2.6

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Proper handling of clients that choose to send an empty answer to a certificate request
Own Id: OTP-15050

SSL 8.2.5

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix filter function to not incorrectly exclude AEAD cipher suites
Own Id: OTP-14981

SSL 8.2.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Optimization of bad merge conflict resolution causing dubble decode
Own Id: OTP-14843
Restore error propagation to OTP-19.3 behaviour, in OTP-20.2 implementation adjustments to gen_statem needed some further adjustments to avoid a race condition. This could cause a TLS server to not always report file path errors correctly.
Own Id: OTP-14852
Corrected RC4 suites listing function to regard TLS version
Own Id: OTP-14871
Fix alert handling so that unexpected messages are logged and alerted correctly
Own Id: OTP-14919
Correct handling of anonymous cipher suites
Own Id: OTP-14952

Improvements and New Features

Added new API functions to facilitate cipher suite handling
Own Id: OTP-14760
Correct TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV handling so that this special flag suite is always placed last in the cipher suite list in accordance with the specs. Also make sure this functionality is used in DTLS.
Own Id: OTP-14828
Add TLS record version sanity check for early as possible error detection and consistency in ALERT codes generated
Own Id: OTP-14892

SSL 8.2.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Packet options cannot be supported for unreliable transports, that is, packet option for DTLS over udp will not be supported.
Own Id: OTP-14664
Ensure data delivery before close if possible. This fix is related to fix in PR-1479.
Own Id: OTP-14794

Improvements and New Features

The crypto API is extended to use private/public keys stored in an Engine for sign/verify or encrypt/decrypt operations.
The ssl application provides an API to use this new engine concept in TLS.
Own Id: OTP-14448
Implemented renegotiation for DTLS
Own Id: OTP-14563
A new command line option -ssl_dist_optfile has been added to facilitate specifying the many options needed when using SSL as the distribution protocol.
Own Id: OTP-14657

SSL 8.2.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

TLS sessions must be registered with SNI if provided, so that sessions where client hostname verification would fail cannot connect reusing a session created when the server name verification succeeded.
Own Id: OTP-14632
An erlang TLS server configured with cipher suites using rsa key exchange, may be vulnerable to an Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) against RSA, which when exploited, may result in plaintext recovery of encrypted messages and/or a Man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack, despite the attacker not having gained access to the server’s private key itself. CVE-2017-1000385
Exploiting this vulnerability to perform plaintext recovery of encrypted messages will, in most practical cases, allow an attacker to read the plaintext only after the session has completed. Only TLS sessions established using RSA key exchange are vulnerable to this attack.
Exploiting this vulnerability to conduct a MiTM attack requires the attacker to complete the initial attack, which may require thousands of server requests, during the handshake phase of the targeted session within the window of the configured handshake timeout. This attack may be conducted against any TLS session using RSA signatures, but only if cipher suites using RSA key exchange are also enabled on the server. The limited window of opportunity, limitations in bandwidth, and latency make this attack significantly more difficult to execute.
RSA key exchange is enabled by default although least prioritized if server order is honored. For such a cipher suite to be chosen it must also be supported by the client and probably the only shared cipher suite.
Captured TLS sessions encrypted with ephemeral cipher suites (DHE or ECDHE) are not at risk for subsequent decryption due to this vulnerability.
As a workaround if default cipher suite configuration was used you can configure the server to not use vulnerable suites with the ciphers option like this:
{ciphers, [Suite || Suite <- ssl:cipher_suites(), element(1,Suite) =/= rsa]}
that is your code will look somethingh like this:
ssl:listen(Port, [{ciphers, [Suite || Suite <- ssl:cipher_suites(), element(1,S) =/= rsa]} | Options]).
Thanks to Hanno Böck, Juraj Somorovsky and Craig Young for reporting this vulnerability.
Own Id: OTP-14748

Improvements and New Features

If no SNI is available and the hostname is an IP-address also check for IP-address match. This check is not as good as a DNS hostname check and certificates using IP-address are not recommended.
Own Id: OTP-14655

SSL 8.2.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Max session table works correctly again
Own Id: OTP-14556

Improvements and New Features

Customize alert handling for DTLS over UDP to mitigate DoS attacks
Own Id: OTP-14078
Improved error propagation and reports
Own Id: OTP-14236

SSL 8.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

ECDH-ECDSA key exchange supported, was accidentally dismissed in earlier versions.
Own Id: OTP-14421
Correct close semantics for active once connections. This was a timing dependent bug the resulted in the close message not always reaching the ssl user process.
Own Id: OTP-14443

Improvements and New Features

TLS-1.2 clients will now always send hello messages on its own format, as opposed to earlier versions that will send the hello on the lowest supported version, this is a change supported by the latest RFC.
This will make interoperability with some newer servers smoother. Potentially, but unlikely, this could cause a problem with older servers if they do not adhere to the RFC and ignore unknown extensions.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-13820
Allow Erlang/OTP to use OpenSSL in FIPS-140 mode, in order to satisfy specific security requirements (mostly by different parts of the US federal government).
See the new crypto users guide "FIPS mode" chapter about building and using the FIPS support which is disabled by default.
(Thanks to dszoboszlay and legoscia)
Own Id: OTP-13921 Aux Id: PR-1180
Implemented DTLS cookie generation, required by spec, instead of using a hardcoded value.
Own Id: OTP-14076
Implement sliding window replay protection of DTLS records.
Own Id: OTP-14077
TLS client processes will by default call public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/2 to verify the hostname of the connection with the server certificates specified hostname during certificate path validation. The user may explicitly disables it. Also if the hostname cannot be derived from the first argument to connect or is not supplied by the server name indication option, the check will not be performed.
Own Id: OTP-14197
Extend connection_information/[1,2] . The values session_id, master_secret, client_random and server_random can no be accessed by connection_information/2. Note only session_id will be added to connection_information/1. The rational is that values concerning the connection security should have to be explicitly requested.
Own Id: OTP-14291
Chacha cipher suites are currently not tested enough to be most preferred ones
Own Id: OTP-14382
Basic support for DTLS that been tested together with OpenSSL.
Test by providing the option {protocol, dtls} to the ssl API functions connect and listen.
Own Id: OTP-14388

SSL 8.1.3.1.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix alert handling so that unexpected messages are logged and alerted correctly
Own Id: OTP-14929

SSL 8.1.3.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

An erlang TLS server configured with cipher suites using rsa key exchange, may be vulnerable to an Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) against RSA, which when exploited, may result in plaintext recovery of encrypted messages and/or a Man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack, despite the attacker not having gained access to the server’s private key itself. CVE-2017-1000385
Exploiting this vulnerability to perform plaintext recovery of encrypted messages will, in most practical cases, allow an attacker to read the plaintext only after the session has completed. Only TLS sessions established using RSA key exchange are vulnerable to this attack.
Exploiting this vulnerability to conduct a MiTM attack requires the attacker to complete the initial attack, which may require thousands of server requests, during the handshake phase of the targeted session within the window of the configured handshake timeout. This attack may be conducted against any TLS session using RSA signatures, but only if cipher suites using RSA key exchange are also enabled on the server. The limited window of opportunity, limitations in bandwidth, and latency make this attack significantly more difficult to execute.
RSA key exchange is enabled by default although least prioritized if server order is honored. For such a cipher suite to be chosen it must also be supported by the client and probably the only shared cipher suite.
Captured TLS sessions encrypted with ephemeral cipher suites (DHE or ECDHE) are not at risk for subsequent decryption due to this vulnerability.
As a workaround if default cipher suite configuration was used you can configure the server to not use vulnerable suites with the ciphers option like this:
{ciphers, [Suite || Suite <- ssl:cipher_suites(), element(1,Suite) =/= rsa]}
that is your code will look somethingh like this:
ssl:listen(Port, [{ciphers, [Suite || Suite <- ssl:cipher_suites(), element(1,S) =/= rsa]} | Options]).
Thanks to Hanno Böck, Juraj Somorovsky and Craig Young for reporting this vulnerability.
Own Id: OTP-14748

SSL 8.1.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Remove debug printout
Own Id: OTP-14396

SSL 8.1.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct active once emulation, for TLS. Now all data received by the connection process will be delivered through active once, even when the active once arrives after that the gen_tcp socket is closed by the peer.
Own Id: OTP-14300

SSL 8.1.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Corrected termination behavior, that caused a PEM cache bug and sometimes resulted in connection failures.
Own Id: OTP-14100
Fix bug that could hang ssl connection processes when failing to require more data for very large handshake packages. Add option max_handshake_size to mitigate DoS attacks.
Own Id: OTP-14138
Improved support for CRL handling that could fail to work as intended when an id-ce-extKeyUsage was present in the certificate. Also improvements where needed to distributionpoint handling so that all revocations actually are found and not deemed to be not determinable.
Own Id: OTP-14141
A TLS handshake might accidentally match old sslv2 format and ssl application would incorrectly aborted TLS handshake with ssl_v2_client_hello_no_supported. Parsing was altered to avoid this problem.
Own Id: OTP-14222
Correct default cipher list to prefer AES 128 before 3DES
Own Id: OTP-14235

Improvements and New Features

Move PEM cache to a dedicated process, to avoid making the SSL manager process a bottleneck. This improves scalability of TLS connections.
Own Id: OTP-13874

SSL 8.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

List of possible anonymous suites, never supported by default, where incorrect for some TLS versions.
Own Id: OTP-13926

Improvements and New Features

Experimental version of DTLS. It is runnable but not complete and cannot be considered reliable for production usage.
Own Id: OTP-12982
Add API options to handle ECC curve selection.
Own Id: OTP-13959

SSL 8.0.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

A timing related bug in event handling could cause interoperability problems between an erlang TLS server and some TLS clients, especially noticed with Firefox as TLS client.
Own Id: OTP-13917
Correct ECC curve selection, the error could cause the default to always be selected.
Own Id: OTP-13918

SSL 8.0.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correctly formed handshake messages received out of order will now correctly fail the connection with unexpected message.
Own Id: OTP-13853
Correct handling of signature algorithm selection
Own Id: OTP-13711

Improvements and New Features

ssl application now behaves gracefully also on partially incorrect input from peer.
Own Id: OTP-13834
Add application environment configuration bypass_pem_cache. This can be used as a workaround for the current implementation of the PEM-cache that has proven to be a bottleneck.
Own Id: OTP-13883

SSL 8.0.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

The TLS/SSL protocol version selection for the SSL server has been corrected to follow RFC 5246 Appendix E.1 especially in case where the list of supported versions has gaps. Now the server selects the highest protocol version it supports that is not higher than what the client supports.
Own Id: OTP-13753 Aux Id: seq13150

SSL 8.0

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Server now rejects, a not requested client cert, as an incorrect handshake message and ends the connection.
Own Id: OTP-13651

Improvements and New Features

Remove default support for DES cipher suites
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-13195
Deprecate the function crypto:rand_bytes and make sure that crypto:strong_rand_bytes is used in all places that are cryptographically significant.
Own Id: OTP-13214
Better error handling of user error during TLS upgrade. ERL-69 is solved by gen_statem rewrite of ssl application.
Own Id: OTP-13255
Provide user friendly error message when crypto rejects a key
Own Id: OTP-13256
Add ssl:getstat/1 and ssl:getstat/2
Own Id: OTP-13415
TLS distribution connections now allow specifying the options verify_fun, crl_check and crl_cache. See the documentation. GitHub pull req #956 contributed by Magnus Henoch.
Own Id: OTP-13429 Aux Id: Pull#956
Remove confusing error message when closing a distributed erlang node running over TLS
Own Id: OTP-13431
Remove default support for use of md5 in TLS 1.2 signature algorithms
Own Id: OTP-13463
ssl now uses gen_statem instead of gen_fsm to implement the ssl connection process, this solves some timing issues in addition to making the code more intuitive as the behaviour can be used cleanly instead of having a lot of workaround for shortcomings of the behaviour.
Own Id: OTP-13464
Phase out interoperability with clients that offer SSLv2. By default they are no longer supported, but an option to provide interoperability is offered.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-13465
OpenSSL has functions to generate short (eight hex digits) hashes of issuers of certificates and CRLs. These hashes are used by the "c_rehash" script to populate directories of CA certificates and CRLs, e.g. in the Apache web server. Add functionality to let an Erlang program find the right CRL for a given certificate in such a directory.
Own Id: OTP-13530
Some legacy TLS 1.0 software does not tolerate the 1/n-1 content split BEAST mitigation technique. Add a beast_mitigation SSL option (defaulting to one_n_minus_one) to select or disable the BEAST mitigation technique.
Own Id: OTP-13629
Enhance error log messages to facilitate for users to understand the error
Own Id: OTP-13632
Increased default DH params to 2048-bit
Own Id: OTP-13636
Propagate CRL unknown CA error so that public_key validation process continues correctly and determines what should happen.
Own Id: OTP-13656
Introduce a flight concept for handshake packages. This is a preparation for enabling DTLS, however it can also have a positive effects for TLS on slow and unreliable networks.
Own Id: OTP-13678

SSL 7.3.3.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

An erlang TLS server configured with cipher suites using rsa key exchange, may be vulnerable to an Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) against RSA, which when exploited, may result in plaintext recovery of encrypted messages and/or a Man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack, despite the attacker not having gained access to the server’s private key itself. CVE-2017-1000385
Exploiting this vulnerability to perform plaintext recovery of encrypted messages will, in most practical cases, allow an attacker to read the plaintext only after the session has completed. Only TLS sessions established using RSA key exchange are vulnerable to this attack.
Exploiting this vulnerability to conduct a MiTM attack requires the attacker to complete the initial attack, which may require thousands of server requests, during the handshake phase of the targeted session within the window of the configured handshake timeout. This attack may be conducted against any TLS session using RSA signatures, but only if cipher suites using RSA key exchange are also enabled on the server. The limited window of opportunity, limitations in bandwidth, and latency make this attack significantly more difficult to execute.
RSA key exchange is enabled by default although least prioritized if server order is honored. For such a cipher suite to be chosen it must also be supported by the client and probably the only shared cipher suite.
Captured TLS sessions encrypted with ephemeral cipher suites (DHE or ECDHE) are not at risk for subsequent decryption due to this vulnerability.
As a workaround if default cipher suite configuration was used you can configure the server to not use vulnerable suites with the ciphers option like this:
{ciphers, [Suite || Suite <- ssl:cipher_suites(), element(1,Suite) =/= rsa]}
that is your code will look somethingh like this:
ssl:listen(Port, [{ciphers, [Suite || Suite <- ssl:cipher_suites(), element(1,S) =/= rsa]} | Options]).
Thanks to Hanno Böck, Juraj Somorovsky and Craig Young for reporting this vulnerability.
Own Id: OTP-14748

SSL 7.3.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct ssl:prf/5 to use the negotiated cipher suite's prf function in ssl:prf/5 instead of the default prf.
Own Id: OTP-13546
Timeouts may have the value 0, guards have been corrected to allow this
Own Id: OTP-13635
Change of internal handling of hash sign pairs as the used one enforced to much restrictions making some valid combinations unavailable.
Own Id: OTP-13670

SSL 7.3.3.0.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

An erlang TLS server configured with cipher suites using rsa key exchange, may be vulnerable to an Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) against RSA, which when exploited, may result in plaintext recovery of encrypted messages and/or a Man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack, despite the attacker not having gained access to the server’s private key itself. CVE-2017-1000385
Exploiting this vulnerability to perform plaintext recovery of encrypted messages will, in most practical cases, allow an attacker to read the plaintext only after the session has completed. Only TLS sessions established using RSA key exchange are vulnerable to this attack.
Exploiting this vulnerability to conduct a MiTM attack requires the attacker to complete the initial attack, which may require thousands of server requests, during the handshake phase of the targeted session within the window of the configured handshake timeout. This attack may be conducted against any TLS session using RSA signatures, but only if cipher suites using RSA key exchange are also enabled on the server. The limited window of opportunity, limitations in bandwidth, and latency make this attack significantly more difficult to execute.
RSA key exchange is enabled by default although least prioritized if server order is honored. For such a cipher suite to be chosen it must also be supported by the client and probably the only shared cipher suite.
Captured TLS sessions encrypted with ephemeral cipher suites (DHE or ECDHE) are not at risk for subsequent decryption due to this vulnerability.
As a workaround if default cipher suite configuration was used you can configure the server to not use vulnerable suites with the ciphers option like this:
{ciphers, [Suite || Suite <- ssl:cipher_suites(), element(1,Suite) =/= rsa]}
that is your code will look somethingh like this:
ssl:listen(Port, [{ciphers, [Suite || Suite <- ssl:cipher_suites(), element(1,S) =/= rsa]} | Options]).
Thanks to Hanno Böck, Juraj Somorovsky and Craig Young for reporting this vulnerability.
Own Id: OTP-14748

Improvements and New Features

Create a little randomness in sending of session invalidation messages, to mitigate load when whole table is invalidated.
Own Id: OTP-13490

SSL 7.3.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct cipher suites conversion and guard expression. Caused problems with GCM cipher suites and client side option to set signature_algorithms extension values.
Own Id: OTP-13525

SSL 7.3.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Corrections to cipher suite handling using the 3 and 4 tuple format in addition to commit 89d7e21cf4ae988c57c8ef047bfe85127875c70c
Own Id: OTP-13511

Improvements and New Features

Make values for the TLS-1.2 signature_algorithms extension configurable
Own Id: OTP-13261

SSL 7.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Make sure there is only one poller validator at a time for validating the session cache.
Own Id: OTP-13185
A timing related issue could cause ssl to hang, especially happened with newer versions of OpenSSL in combination with ECC ciphers.
Own Id: OTP-13253
Work around a race condition in the TLS distribution start.
Own Id: OTP-13268
Big handshake messages are now correctly fragmented in the TLS record layer.
Own Id: OTP-13306
Improve portability of ECC tests in Crypto and SSL for "exotic" OpenSSL versions.
Own Id: OTP-13311
Certificate extensions marked as critical are ignored when using verify_none
Own Id: OTP-13377
If a certificate doesn't contain a CRL Distribution Points extension, and the relevant CRL is not in the cache, and the crl_check option is not set to best_effort , the revocation check should fail.
Own Id: OTP-13378
Enable TLS distribution over IPv6
Own Id: OTP-13391

Improvements and New Features

Improve error reporting for TLS distribution
Own Id: OTP-13219
Include options from connect, listen and accept in connection_information/1,2
Own Id: OTP-13232
Allow adding extra options for outgoing TLS distribution connections, as supported for plain TCP connections.
Own Id: OTP-13285
Use loopback as server option in TLS-distribution module
Own Id: OTP-13300
Verify certificate signature against original certificate binary.
This avoids bugs due to encoding errors when re-encoding a decode certificate. As there exists several decode step and using of different ASN.1 specification this is a risk worth avoiding.
Own Id: OTP-13334
Use application:ensure_all_started/2 instead of hard-coding dependencies
Own Id: OTP-13363

SSL 7.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Honor distribution port range options
Own Id: OTP-12838
Correct supervisor specification in TLS distribution.
Own Id: OTP-13134
Correct cache timeout
Own Id: OTP-13141
Avoid crash and restart of ssl process when key file does not exist.
Own Id: OTP-13144
Enable passing of raw socket options on the format {raw,,,_} to the underlying socket.
Own Id: OTP-13166
Hibernation with small or a zero timeout will now work as expected
Own Id: OTP-13189

Improvements and New Features

Add upper limit for session cache, configurable on ssl application level.
If upper limit is reached, invalidate the current cache entries, e.i the session lifetime is the max time a session will be kept, but it may be invalidated earlier if the max limit for the table is reached. This will keep the ssl manager process well behaved, not exhusting memory. Invalidating the entries will incrementally empty the cache to make room for fresh sessions entries.
Own Id: OTP-12392
Use new time functions to measure passed time.
Own Id: OTP-12457
Improved error handling in TLS distribution
Own Id: OTP-13142
Distribution over TLS now honors the nodelay distribution flag
Own Id: OTP-13143

SSL 7.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Add DER encoded ECPrivateKey as valid input format for key option.
Own Id: OTP-12974
Correct return value of default session callback module
This error had the symptom that the client check for unique session would always fail, potentially making the client session table grow a lot and causing long setup times.
Own Id: OTP-12980

Improvements and New Features

Add possibility to downgrade an SSL/TLS connection to a tcp connection, and give back the socket control to a user process.
This also adds the possibility to specify a timeout to the ssl:close function.
Own Id: OTP-11397
Add application setting to be able to change fatal alert shutdown timeout, also shorten the default timeout. The fatal alert timeout is the 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.
Own Id: OTP-12832

SSL 7.0

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Ignore signature_algorithm (TLS 1.2 extension) sent to TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1 server
Own Id: OTP-12670
Improve error handling in TLS distribution module to avoid lingering sockets.
Own Id: OTP-12799 Aux Id: Tom Briden
Add option {client_renegotiation, boolean()} option to the server-side of the SSL application.
Own Id: OTP-12815

Improvements and New Features

Add new API functions to handle CRL-verification
Own Id: OTP-10362 Aux Id: kunagi-215 [126]
Remove default support for SSL-3.0, due to Poodle vunrability in protocol specification.
Add padding check for TLS-1.0 to remove Poodle vunrability from TLS 1.0, also add the option padding_check. This option only affects TLS-1.0 connections and if set to false it disables the block cipher padding check to be able to interoperate with legacy software.
Remove default support for RC4 cipher suites, as they are consider too weak.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-12390
Add support for TLS ALPN (Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation) extension.
Own Id: OTP-12580
Add SNI (Server Name Indication) support for the server side.
Own Id: OTP-12736

SSL 6.0.1.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Gracefully ignore proprietary hash_sign algorithms
Own Id: OTP-12829

SSL 6.0.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Terminate gracefully when receiving bad input to premaster secret calculation
Own Id: OTP-12783

SSL 6.0

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Exclude self-signed trusted anchor certificates from certificate prospective certification path according to RFC 3280.
This will avoid some unnecessary certificate processing.
Own Id: OTP-12449

Improvements and New Features

Separate client and server session cache internally.
Avoid session table growth when client starts many connections in such a manner that many connections are started before session reuse is possible. Only save a new session in client if there is no equivalent session already stored.
Own Id: OTP-11365
The PEM cache is now validated by a background process, instead of always keeping it if it is small enough and clearing it otherwise. That strategy required that small caches where cleared by API function if a file changes on disk.
However export the API function to clear the cache as it may still be useful.
Own Id: OTP-12391
Add padding check for TLS-1.0 to remove Poodle vulnerability from TLS 1.0, also add the option padding_check. This option only affects TLS-1.0 connections and if set to false it disables the block cipher padding check to be able to interoperate with legacy software.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-12420
Add support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV used to prevent undesired TLS version downgrades. If used by a client that is vulnerable to the POODLE attack, and the server also supports TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV, the attack can be prevented.
Own Id: OTP-12458

SSL 5.3.8

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Make sure the clean rule for ssh, ssl, eunit and otp_mibs actually removes generated files.
Own Id: OTP-12200

Improvements and New Features

Change code to reflect that state data may be secret to avoid breaking dialyzer contracts.
Own Id: OTP-12341

SSL 5.3.7

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Handle the fact that servers may send an empty SNI extension to the client.
Own Id: OTP-12198

SSL 5.3.6

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Corrected handling of ECC certificates, there where several small issues with the handling of such certificates in the ssl and public_key application. Now ECC signed ECC certificates shall work and not only RSA signed ECC certificates.
Own Id: OTP-12026
Check that the certificate chain ends with a trusted ROOT CA e.i. a self-signed certificate, but provide an option partial_chain to enable the application to define an intermediat CA as trusted.
Own Id: OTP-12149

Improvements and New Features

Add decode functions for SNI (Server Name Indication)
Own Id: OTP-12048

SSL 5.3.5

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

ssl:recv now returns {error, einval} if applied to a non passive socket, the same as gen_tcp:recv.
Thanks to Danil Zagoskin for reporting this issue
Own Id: OTP-11878
Corrected handling of default values for signature_algorithms extension in TLS-1.2 and corresponding values used in previous versions that does not support this extension.
Thanks to Danil Zagoskin
Own Id: OTP-11886
Handle socket option inheritance when pooling of accept sockets is used
Own Id: OTP-11897
Make sure that the list of versions, possibly supplied in the versions option, is not order dependent.
Thanks to Ransom Richardson for reporting this issue
Own Id: OTP-11912
Reject connection if the next_protocol message is sent twice.
Own Id: OTP-11926
Correct options handling when ssl:ssl_accept/3 is called with new ssl options after calling ssl:listen/2
Own Id: OTP-11950

Improvements and New Features

Gracefully handle unknown alerts
Thanks to Atul Atri for reporting this issue
Own Id: OTP-11874
Gracefully ignore cipher suites sent by client not supported by the SSL/TLS version that the client has negotiated.
Thanks to Danil Zagoskin for reporting this issue
Own Id: OTP-11875
Gracefully handle structured garbage, i.e a client sends some garbage in a ssl record instead of a valid fragment.
Thanks to Danil Zagoskin
Own Id: OTP-11880
Gracefully handle invalid alerts
Own Id: OTP-11890
Generalize handling of default ciphers
Thanks to Andreas Schultz
Own Id: OTP-11966
Make sure change cipher spec is correctly handled
Own Id: OTP-11975

SSL 5.3.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fix incorrect dialyzer spec and types, also enhance documentation.
Thanks to Ayaz Tuncer.
Own Id: OTP-11627
Fix possible mismatch between SSL/TLS version and default ciphers. Could happen when you specified SSL/TLS-version in optionlist to listen or accept.
Own Id: OTP-11712
Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the following applications:
asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger, dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe, inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools, percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh, syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx, xmerl
A new test utility for testing appup files is added to test_server. This is now used by most applications in OTP.
(Thanks to Tobias Schlager)
Own Id: OTP-11744

Improvements and New Features

Moved elliptic curve definition from the crypto NIF/OpenSSL into Erlang code, adds the RFC-5639 brainpool curves and makes TLS use them (RFC-7027).
Thanks to Andreas Schultz
Own Id: OTP-11578
Unicode adaptations
Own Id: OTP-11620
Added option honor_cipher_order. This instructs the server to prefer its own cipher ordering rather than the client's and can help protect against things like BEAST while maintaining compatibility with clients which only support older ciphers.
Thanks to Andrew Thompson for the implementation, and Andreas Schultz for the test cases.
Own Id: OTP-11621
Replace boolean checking in validate_option with is_boolean guard.
Thanks to Andreas Schultz.
Own Id: OTP-11634
Some function specs are corrected or moved and some edoc comments are corrected in order to allow use of edoc. (Thanks to Pierre Fenoll)
Own Id: OTP-11702
Correct clean up of certificate database when certs are inputted in pure DER format.The incorrect code could cause a memory leek when certs where inputted in DER. Thanks to Bernard Duggan for reporting this.
Own Id: OTP-11733
Improved documentation of the cacertfile option
Own Id: OTP-11759 Aux Id: seq12535
Avoid next protocol negotiation failure due to incorrect option format.
Own Id: OTP-11760
Handle v1 CRLs, with no extensions and fixes issues with IDP (Issuing Distribution Point) comparison during CRL validation.
Thanks to Andrew Thompson
Own Id: OTP-11761
Server now ignores client ECC curves that it does not support instead of crashing.
Thanks to Danil Zagoskin for reporting the issue and suggesting a solution.
Own Id: OTP-11780
Handle SNI (Server Name Indication) alert unrecognized_name and gracefully deal with unexpected alerts.
Thanks to Masatake Daimon for reporting this.
Own Id: OTP-11815
Add possibility to specify ssl options when calling ssl:ssl_accept
Own Id: OTP-11837

SSL 5.3.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Add missing validation of the server_name_indication option and test for its explicit use. It was not possible to set or disable the default server_name_indication as the validation of the option was missing.
Own Id: OTP-11567
Elliptic curve selection in server mode now properly selects a curve suggested by the client, if possible, and the fallback alternative is changed to a more widely supported curve.
Own Id: OTP-11575
Bug in the TLS hello extension handling caused the server to behave as it did not understand secure renegotiation.
Own Id: OTP-11595

SSL 5.3.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Honors the clients advertised support of elliptic curves and no longer sends incorrect elliptic curve extension in server hello.
Own Id: OTP-11370
Fix initialization of DTLS fragment reassembler, in previously contributed code, for future support of DTLS . Thanks to Andreas Schultz.
Own Id: OTP-11376
Corrected type error in client_preferred_next_protocols documentation. Thanks to Julien Barbot.
Own Id: OTP-11457

Improvements and New Features

TLS code has been refactored to prepare for future DTLS support. Also some DTLS code is in place but not yet runnable, some of it contributed by Andreas Schultz and some of it written by the OTP team. Thanks to to Andreas for his participation.
Own Id: OTP-11292
Remove extraneous dev debug code left in the close function. Thanks to Ken Key.
Own Id: OTP-11447
Add SSL Server Name Indication (SNI) client support. Thanks to Julien Barbot.
Own Id: OTP-11460

SSL 5.3.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Setopts during renegotiation caused the renegotiation to be unsuccessful.
If calling setopts during a renegotiation the FSM state might change during the handling of the setopts messages, this is now handled correctly.
Own Id: OTP-11228
Now handles signature_algorithm field in digitally_signed properly with proper defaults. Prior to this change some elliptic curve cipher suites could fail reporting the error "bad certificate".
Own Id: OTP-11229
The code emulating the inet header option was changed in the belief that it made it inet compatible. However the testing is a bit hairy as the inet option is actually broken, now the tests are corrected and the header option should work in the same broken way as inet again, preferably use the bitsyntax instead.
Own Id: OTP-11230

Improvements and New Features

Make the ssl manager name for erlang distribution over SSL/TLS relative to the module name of the ssl_manager.
This can be beneficial when making tools that rename modules for internal processing in the tool.
Own Id: OTP-11255
Add documentation regarding log_alert option.
Own Id: OTP-11271

SSL 5.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Honor the versions option to ssl:connect and ssl:listen.
Own Id: OTP-10905
Next protocol negotiation with reused sessions will now succeed
Own Id: OTP-10909

Improvements and New Features

Add support for PSK (Pre Shared Key) and SRP (Secure Remote Password) cipher suites, thanks to Andreas Schultz.
Own Id: OTP-10450 Aux Id: kunagi-269 [180]
Fix SSL Next Protocol Negotiation documentation. Thanks to Julien Barbot.
Own Id: OTP-10955
Fix ssl_connection to support reading proxy/chain certificates. Thanks to Valentin Kuznetsov.
Own Id: OTP-10980
Integrate elliptic curve contribution from Andreas Schultz
In order to be able to support elliptic curve cipher suites in SSL/TLS, additions to handle elliptic curve infrastructure has been added to public_key and crypto.
This also has resulted in a rewrite of the crypto API to gain consistency and remove unnecessary overhead. All OTP applications using crypto has been updated to use the new API.
Impact: Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) offers equivalent security with smaller key sizes than other public key algorithms. Smaller key sizes result in savings for power, memory, bandwidth, and computational cost that make ECC especially attractive for constrained environments.
Own Id: OTP-11009

SSL 5.2.1

Improvements and New Features

Transport callback handling is changed so that gen_tcp is treated as a special case where inet will be called directly for functions such as setopts, as gen_tcp does not have its own setopts. This will enable users to use the transport callback for other customizations such as websockets.
Own Id: OTP-10847
Follow up to OTP-10451 solved in ssl-5.2 R16A. Make sure format_error return good strings. Replace confusing legacy atoms with more descriptive atoms.
Own Id: OTP-10864

SSL 5.1.2.1

Improvements and New Features

Make log_alert configurable as option in ssl, SSLLogLevel added as option to inets conf file
Own Id: OTP-11259

SSL 5.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

SSL: TLS 1.2, advertise sha224 support, thanks to Andreas Schultz.
Own Id: OTP-10586
If an ssl server is restarted with new options and a client tries to reuse a session the server must make sure that it complies to the new options before agreeing to reuse it.
Own Id: OTP-10595
Now handles cleaning of CA-certificate database correctly so that there will be no memory leek, bug was introduced in ssl- 5.1 when changing implementation to increase parallel execution.
Impact: Improved memory usage, especially if you have many different certificates and upgrade tcp-connections to TLS-connections.
Own Id: OTP-10710

Improvements and New Features

Support Next Protocol Negotiation in TLS, thanks to Ben Murphy for the contribution.
Impact: Could give performance benefit if used as it saves a round trip.
Own Id: OTP-10361 Aux Id: kunagi-214 [125]
TLS 1.2 will now be the default TLS version if sufficient crypto support is available otherwise TLS 1.1 will be default.
Impact: A default TLS connection will have higher security and hence it may be perceived as slower then before.
Own Id: OTP-10425 Aux Id: kunagi-275 [186]
It is now possible to call controlling_process on a listen socket, same as in gen_tcp.
Own Id: OTP-10447
Remove filter mechanisms that made error messages backwards compatible with old ssl but hid information about what actually happened.
This does not break the documented API however other reason terms may be returned, so code that matches on the reason part of {error, Reason} may fail.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-10451 Aux Id: kunagi-270 [181]
Added missing dependencies to Makefile
Own Id: OTP-10594
Removed deprecated function ssl:pid/0, it has been pointless since R14 but has been keep for backwards compatibility.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-10613 Aux Id: kunagi-331 [242]
Refactor to simplify addition of key exchange methods, thanks to Andreas Schultz.
Own Id: OTP-10709

SSL 5.1.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

ssl:ssl_accept/2 timeout is no longer ignored
Own Id: OTP-10600

SSL 5.1.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

ssl:recv/3 could "loose" data when the timeout occurs. If the timeout in ssl:connect or ssl:ssl_accept expired the ssl connection process was not terminated as it should, this due to gen_fsm:send_all_state_event timeout is a client side time out. These timouts are now handled by the gen_fsm-procss instead.
Own Id: OTP-10569

Improvements and New Features

Better termination handling that avoids hanging.
Own Id: OTP-10574

SSL 5.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Sometimes the client process could receive an extra {error, closed} message after ssl:recv had returned {error, closed}.
Own Id: OTP-10118
ssl v3 alert number 41 (no_certificate_RESERVED) is now recognized
Own Id: OTP-10196

Improvements and New Features

Experimental support for TLS 1.1 is now available, will be officially supported from OTP-R16. Thanks to Andreas Schultz for implementing the first version.
Own Id: OTP-8871
Experimental support for TLS 1.2 is now available, will be officially supported from OTP-R16. Thanks to Andreas Schultz for implementing the first version.
Own Id: OTP-8872
Removed some bottlenecks increasing the applications parallelism especially for the client side.
Own Id: OTP-10113
Workaround for handling certificates that wrongly encode X509countryname in utf-8 when the actual value is a valid ASCCI value of length 2. Such certificates are accepted by many browsers such as Chrome and Fierfox so for interoperability reasons we will too.
Own Id: OTP-10222

SSL 5.0.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Robustness and improvement to distribution over SSL
Fix a bug where ssl_tls_dist_proxy would crash at caller timeout. Fix a bug where a timeout from the SSL layer would block the distribution indefinitely. Run the proxy exclusively on the loopback interface. (Thanks to Paul Guyot)
Own Id: OTP-9915
Fix setup loop of SSL TLS dist proxy
Fix potential leak of processes waiting indefinitely for data from closed sockets during socket setup phase. (Thanks to Paul Guyot)
Own Id: OTP-9916
Correct spelling of registered (Thanks to Richard Carlsson)
Own Id: OTP-9925
Added TLS PRF function to the SSL API for generation of additional key material from a TLS session. (Thanks to Andreas Schultz)
Own Id: OTP-10024

SSL 5.0

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Invalidation handling of sessions could cause the time_stamp field in the session record to be set to undefined crashing the session clean up process. This did not affect the connections but would result in that the session table would grow.
Own Id: OTP-9696 Aux Id: seq11947
Changed code to use ets:foldl and throw instead of ets:next traversal, avoiding the need to explicitly call ets:safe_fixtable. It was possible to get a badarg-crash under special circumstances.
Own Id: OTP-9703 Aux Id: seq11947
Send ssl_closed notification to active ssl user when a tcp error occurs.
Own Id: OTP-9734 Aux Id: seq11946
If a passive receive was ongoing during a renegotiation the process evaluating ssl:recv could be left hanging for ever.
Own Id: OTP-9744

Improvements and New Features

Support for the old ssl implementation is dropped and the code is removed.
Own Id: OTP-7048
The erlang distribution can now be run over the new ssl implementation. All options can currently not be set but it is enough to replace to old ssl implementation.
Own Id: OTP-7053
public_key, ssl and crypto now supports PKCS-8
Own Id: OTP-9312
Implements a CBC timing attack counter measure. Thanks to Andreas Schultz for providing the patch.
Own Id: OTP-9683
Mitigates an SSL/TLS Computational DoS attack by disallowing the client to renegotiate many times in a row in a short time interval, thanks to Tuncer Ayaz for alerting us about this.
Own Id: OTP-9739
Implements the 1/n-1 splitting countermeasure to the Rizzo Duong BEAST attack, affects SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0. Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz for alerting us about this.
Own Id: OTP-9750

SSL 4.1.6

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

replace "a ssl" with "an ssl" reindent pkix_path_validation/3 Trivial documentation fixes (Thanks to Christian von Roques )
Own Id: OTP-9464

Improvements and New Features

Adds function clause to avoid denial of service attack. Thanks to Vinod for reporting this vulnerability.
Own Id: OTP-9364
Error handling code now takes care of inet:getopts/2 and inets:setopts/2 crashes. Thanks to Richard Jones for reporting this.
Own Id: OTP-9382
Support explicit use of packet option httph and httph_bin
Own Id: OTP-9461
Decoding of hello extensions could fail to come to the correct conclusion due to an error in a binary match pattern. Thanks to Ben Murphy.
Own Id: OTP-9589

SSL 4.1.5

Improvements and New Features

Calling gen_tcp:connect with option {ip, {127,0,0,1}} results in an exit with reason badarg. Neither SSL nor INETS This was not caught, resulting in crashes with incomprehensible reasons.
Own Id: OTP-9289 Aux Id: seq11845

SSL 4.1.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fixed error in cache-handling fix from ssl-4.1.2
Own Id: OTP-9018 Aux Id: seq11739
Verification of a critical extended_key_usage-extension corrected
Own Id: OTP-9029 Aux Id: seq11541

SSL 4.1.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

The ssl application caches certificate files, it will now invalidate cache entries if the diskfile is changed.
Own Id: OTP-8965 Aux Id: seq11739
Now runs the terminate function before returning from the call made by ssl:close/1, as before the caller of ssl:close/1 could get problems with the reuseaddr option.
Own Id: OTP-8992

SSL 4.1.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Correct handling of client certificate verify message When checking the client certificate verify message the server used the wrong algorithm identifier to determine the signing algorithm, causing a function clause error in the public_key application when the key-exchange algorithm and the public key algorithm of the client certificate happen to differ.
Own Id: OTP-8897

Improvements and New Features

For testing purposes ssl now also support some anonymous cipher suites when explicitly configured to do so.
Own Id: OTP-8870
Sends an error alert instead of crashing if a crypto function for the selected cipher suite fails.
Own Id: OTP-8930 Aux Id: seq11720

SSL 4.1

Improvements and New Features

Updated ssl to ignore CA certs that violate the asn1-spec for a certificate, and updated public key asn1 spec to handle inherited DSS-params.
Own Id: OTP-7884
Changed ssl implementation to retain backwards compatibility for old option {verify, 0} that shall be equivalent to {verify, verify_none}, also separate the cases unknown ca and selfsigned peer cert, and restored return value of deprecated function public_key:pem_to_der/1.
Own Id: OTP-8858
Changed the verify fun so that it differentiate between the peer certificate and CA certificates by using valid_peer or valid as the second argument to the verify fun. It may not always be trivial or even possible to know when the peer certificate is reached otherwise.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-8873

SSL 4.0.1

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

The server now verifies the client certificate verify message correctly, instead of causing a case-clause.
Own Id: OTP-8721
The client hello message now always include ALL available cipher suites (or those specified by the ciphers option). Previous implementation would filter them based on the client certificate key usage extension (such filtering only makes sense for the server certificate).
Own Id: OTP-8772
Fixed handling of the option {mode, list} that was broken for some packet types for instance line.
Own Id: OTP-8785
Empty packets were not delivered to the client.
Own Id: OTP-8790
Building in a source tree without prebuilt platform independent build results failed on the SSL examples when:
- cross building. This has been solved by not building the SSL examples during a cross build.
- building on Windows.
Own Id: OTP-8791
Fixed a handshake error which occurred on some ssl implementations.
Own Id: OTP-8793

Improvements and New Features

Revise the public_key API - Cleaned up and documented the public_key API to make it useful for general use, also changed ssl to use the new API.
Own Id: OTP-8722
Added support for inputing certificates and keys directly in DER format these options will override the pem-file options if specified.
Own Id: OTP-8723
To gain interoperability ssl will not check for padding errors when using TLS 1.0. It is first in TLS 1.1 that checking the padding is an requirement.
Own Id: OTP-8740
Changed the semantics of the verify_fun option in the ssl-application so that it takes care of both application handling of path validation errors and verification of application specific extensions. This means that it is now possible for the server application in verify_peer mode to handle path validation errors. This change moved some functionality earlier in ssl to the public_key application.
Own Id: OTP-8770
Added the functionality so that the verification fun will be called when a certificate is considered valid by the path validation to allow access to each certificate in the path to the user application. Also try to verify subject-AltName, if unable to verify it let the application verify it.
Own Id: OTP-8825

SSL 4.0

Improvements and New Features

New ssl now support client/server-certificates signed by dsa keys.
Own Id: OTP-8587
Ssl has now switched default implementation and removed deprecated certificate handling. All certificate handling is done by the public_key application.
Own Id: OTP-8695

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