From 57d85d9bee20edb6c3070504f23b6a2be2802654 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:20:01 +0200 Subject: doc: mention SSL support dropped for RPC in release notes --- doc/release-notes.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 9caac4f7ae..2fc601d435 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -4,6 +4,29 @@ release-notes at release time) Notable changes =============== +SSL support for RPC dropped +---------------------------- + +SSL support for RPC, previously enabled by the option `rpcssl` has been dropped +from both the client and the server. This was done in preparation for removing +the dependency on OpenSSL for the daemon completely. + +Trying to use `rpcssl` will result in an error: + + Error: SSL mode for RPC (-rpcssl) is no longer supported. + +If you are one of the few people that relies on this feature, a flexible +migration path is to use `stunnel`. This is an utility that can tunnel +arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL. On e.g. Ubuntu it can be installed with: + + sudo apt-get install stunnel4 + +Then, to tunnel a SSL connection on 28332 to a RPC server bound on localhost on port 18332 do: + + stunnel -d 28332 -r 127.0.0.1:18332 -p stunnel.pem -P '' + +It can also be set up system-wide in inetd style. + Random-cookie RPC authentication --------------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3 From 1e700c9b601552ea83567d32c9f1d6c07cd8bfcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 10:59:34 +0200 Subject: doc: update deps in build-unix.md after libevent Add libevent, change usage of libssl from "secure communication" to "crypto" that's more accurate after RPC SSL support removed. --- doc/build-unix.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/build-unix.md b/doc/build-unix.md index 92aed7725e..5f674c8f88 100644 --- a/doc/build-unix.md +++ b/doc/build-unix.md @@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ These dependencies are required: Library | Purpose | Description ------------|------------------|---------------------- - libssl | SSL Support | Secure communications - libboost | Boost | C++ Library + libssl | Crypto | Random Number Generation, Elliptic Curve Cryptography + libboost | Utility | Library for threading, data structures, etc + libevent | Networking | OS independent asynchronous networking Optional dependencies: @@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ Dependency Build Instructions: Ubuntu & Debian ---------------------------------------------- Build requirements: - sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev + sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev For Ubuntu 12.04 and later or Debian 7 and later libboost-all-dev has to be installed: -- cgit v1.2.3