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| author | Bodo Moeller <bodo@openssl.org> | 2014-10-21 22:41:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Bodo Moeller <bodo@openssl.org> | 2014-10-21 22:41:27 +0200 |
| commit | 6a04b0d5a432c7156764529d41aea18dea8010f0 (patch) | |
| tree | c40ed3aa05d4785280ea6d4e9e75d9bc5c204808 /doc | |
| parent | 1acca28263f6f16f60c25b97eb82dca61ad5df88 (diff) | |
Fix and improve SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV documentation.
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_mode.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_mode.pod b/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_mode.pod index 0ee23433ba..f9b838fe6f 100644 --- a/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_mode.pod +++ b/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_mode.pod @@ -61,12 +61,16 @@ deal with read/write operations returning without success report. The flag SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY will cause read/write operations to only return after the handshake and successful completion. -=item SSL_MODE_FALLBACK_SCSV +=item SSL_MODE_SEND_FALLBACK_SCSV Send TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV in the ClientHello. -To be set by applications that reconnect with a downgraded protocol +To be set only by applications that reconnect with a downgraded protocol version; see draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00 for details. +DO NOT ENABLE THIS if your application attempts a normal handshake. +Only use this in explicit fallback retries, following the guidance +in draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00. + =back =head1 RETURN VALUES |