If this option is set this functionality is disabled and tickets will
not be used by clients or servers.
-=item SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION, SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT
+=item SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION
-See the B<SECURE RENEGOTIATION> section for a discussion of the purpose of
-these options.
+Allow legacy insecure renegotiation between OpenSSL and unpatched clients or
+servers. See the B<SECURE RENEGOTIATION> section for more details.
+
+=item SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT
+
+Allow legacy insecure renegotiation between OpenSSL and unpatched servers
+B<only>: this option is currently set by default. See the
+B<SECURE RENEGOTIATION> section for more details.
=back
described in RFC5746. This counters the prefix attack described in
CVE-2009-3555 and elsewhere.
-The deprecated and highly broken SSLv2 protocol does not support secure
+The deprecated and highly broken SSLv2 protocol does not support
renegotiation at all: its use is B<strongly> discouraged.
This attack has far reaching consequences which application writers should be
=head2 Patched OpenSSL client and unpatched server.
-If the option B<SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT> is set then initial connections
-between patched OpenSSL clients and unpatched servers succeed. This option
-is currently set by default even though it has security implications: otherwise
-it would be impossible to connect to unpatched servers (i.e. all of them
-initially) and this is clearly not acceptable.
+If the option B<SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT> or
+B<SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION> is set then initial connections
+and renegotiation between patched OpenSSL clients and unpatched servers
+succeeds. If neither option is set then initial connections to unpatched
+servers will fail.
+
+The option B<SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT> is currently set by default even
+though it has security implications: otherwise it would be impossible to
+connect to unpatched servers (i.e. all of them initially) and this is clearly
+not acceptable. Renegotiation is permitted because this does not add any
+additional security issues: during an attack clients do not see any
+renegotiations anyway.
As more servers become patched the option B<SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT> will
B<not> be set by default in a future version of OpenSSL.
B<SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT> using SSL_CTX_clear_options() or
SSL_clear_options().
-Renegotiation between a patched OpenSSL client and unpatched server follows
-the same scheme as between an unpatched client and a patched OpenSSL server:
-i.e. it is not permitted unless the option
-B<SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION> is set.
+The difference between the B<SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT> and
+B<SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION> options is that
+B<SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT> enables initial connections and secure
+renegotiation between OpenSSL clients and unpatched servers B<only>, while
+B<SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION> allows initial connections
+and renegotiation between OpenSSL and unpatched clients or servers.
=head1 RETURN VALUES