SECURITY-SSL(2)                                   SECURITY-SSL(2)

     NAME
          ssl: connect, secret - interface to the Secure Sockets Layer

     SYNOPSIS
          include "sys.m";
          include "security.m";
          ssl := load SSL SSL->PATH;

          connect: fn(fd: ref Sys->FD): (string, ref Sys->Connection);
          secret:  fn(c: ref Sys->Connection, secretin,
                          secretout: array of byte): string;

     DESCRIPTION
          SSL provides an interface to the secure sockets layer device
          ssl(3).

          Connect allocates a new ssl(3) connection directory.  It
          pushes file descriptor fd into the data file of that connec-
          tion, and if successful, returns a reference to a Connection
          adt describing the connection.  The Connection adt has its
          members set as follows: dir names the resulting connection
          directory; cfd is open on the connection's control file; and
          dfd is open on the connection's data file, which is read and
          written to exchange data on the original fd using SSL.

          Secret sets the secrets for each direction on Connection c ;
          if a secret is nil, the existing setting for that direction
          remains unchanged.  The string returned describes errors
          encountered, if any; otherwise it is nil.

     SOURCE
          /appl/lib/ssl.b

     SEE ALSO
          security-auth(2), ssl(3)

     DIAGNOSTICS
          Connect returns a tuple containing a string and a Connection
          reference.  On success the string is nil, and the connection
          reference is not nil; on error, the string contains a diag-
          nostic, and the connection reference is nil.

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