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: [PATCH] doc: mention SSL support dropped for RPC in release notes --- doc/release-notes.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 9caac4f7a..2fc601d43 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 ---------------------------------