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author | David Gatwood <dgatwood@apple.com> | 2014-08-26 13:02:03 -0400 |
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committer | Rich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com> | 2014-08-26 13:40:45 -0400 |
commit | 8f5f782253a65613664d9c08a34c021a97a65f73 (patch) | |
tree | b38061cae83f9fb34da441508282ec5226eae239 /doc | |
parent | 228a77a4adefef267648bb4f634f1e5ad46eb514 (diff) |
RT1744: SSL_CTX_set_dump_dh() doc feedback
The description of when the server creates a DH key is
confusing. This cleans it up.
(rsalz: also removed trailing whitespace.)
Reviewed-by: Viktor Dukhovni <viktor@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh_callback.pod | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh_callback.pod b/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh_callback.pod index b34c68aba3..7a27eef50b 100644 --- a/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh_callback.pod +++ b/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh_callback.pod @@ -48,12 +48,13 @@ even if he gets hold of the normal (certified) key, as this key was only used for signing. In order to perform a DH key exchange the server must use a DH group -(DH parameters) and generate a DH key. The server will always generate a new -DH key during the negotiation, when the DH parameters are supplied via -callback and/or when the SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option of -L<SSL_CTX_set_options(3)|SSL_CTX_set_options(3)> is set. It will -immediately create a DH key, when DH parameters are supplied via -SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh() and SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE is not set. In this case, +(DH parameters) and generate a DH key. +The server will always generate a new DH key during the negotiation +if either the DH parameters are supplied via callback or the +SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option of SSL_CTX_set_options(3) is set (or both). +It will immediately create a DH key if DH parameters are supplied via +SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh() and SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE is not set. +In this case, it may happen that a key is generated on initialization without later being needed, while on the other hand the computer time during the negotiation is being saved. @@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ partly left out.) dh_tmp = dh_512; break; case 1024: - if (!dh_1024) + if (!dh_1024) dh_1024 = get_dh1024(); dh_tmp = dh_1024; break; |