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authorEmilia Kasper <emilia@openssl.org>2016-02-02 16:26:38 +0100
committerEmilia Kasper <emilia@openssl.org>2016-02-03 18:08:16 +0100
commitdc5744cb78da6f2bcafeeefe22c604a51b52dfc5 (patch)
treed1b336ac5e71896dcfd4217fc4e9c8ec3fd326a2 /doc
parent0c20802c6a6008b28bfb0eac67d69f536edc60a7 (diff)
downloadopenssl-dc5744cb78da6f2bcafeeefe22c604a51b52dfc5.tar.gz
RT3234: disable compression
CRIME protection: disable compression by default, even if OpenSSL is compiled with zlib enabled. Applications can still enable compression by calling SSL_CTX_clear_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION), or by using the SSL_CONF library to configure compression. SSL_CONF continues to work as before: SSL_CONF_cmd(ctx, "Options", "Compression") enables compression. SSL_CONF_cmd(ctx, "Options", "-Compression") disables compression (now no-op by default). The command-line switch has changed from -no_comp to -comp. Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/ssl/SSL_CONF_cmd.pod8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ssl/SSL_CONF_cmd.pod b/doc/ssl/SSL_CONF_cmd.pod
index a74117df0d..6947865318 100644
--- a/doc/ssl/SSL_CONF_cmd.pod
+++ b/doc/ssl/SSL_CONF_cmd.pod
@@ -131,9 +131,9 @@ These options are deprecated, instead use B<-min_protocol> and B<-max_protocol>.
Various bug workarounds are set, same as setting B<SSL_OP_ALL>.
-=item B<-no_comp>
+=item B<-comp>
-Disables support for SSL/TLS compression, same as setting B<SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESS>.
+Enables support for SSL/TLS compression, same as clearing B<SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION>.
=item B<-no_ticket>
@@ -495,6 +495,10 @@ Disable TLS session tickets:
SSL_CONF_cmd(ctx, "Options", "-SessionTicket");
+Enable compression:
+
+ SSL_CONF_cmd(ctx, "Options", "Compression");
+
Set supported curves to P-256, P-384:
SSL_CONF_cmd(ctx, "Curves", "P-256:P-384");