From c267639daa0cc0ef55501fcdc8c385292a9ed927 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian White Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 03:07:13 -0400 Subject: doc: clarify ciphers option format PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/21557 Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig Reviewed-By: James M Snell Reviewed-By: Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu --- doc/api/tls.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/api/tls.md') diff --git a/doc/api/tls.md b/doc/api/tls.md index 9d71308887..e69d0ea17e 100644 --- a/doc/api/tls.md +++ b/doc/api/tls.md @@ -1050,6 +1050,8 @@ changes: certificate, and the handshake will fail. * `ciphers` {string} Optional cipher suite specification, replacing the default. For more information, see [modifying the default cipher suite][]. + Permitted ciphers can be obtained via [`tls.getCiphers()`][]. Cipher names + must be uppercased in order for OpenSSL to accept them. * `clientCertEngine` {string} Optional name of an OpenSSL engine which can provide the client certificate. * `crl` {string|string[]|Buffer|Buffer[]} Optional PEM formatted @@ -1386,6 +1388,7 @@ where `secureSocket` has the same API as `pair.cleartext`. [`tls.createSecureContext()`]: #tls_tls_createsecurecontext_options [`tls.createSecurePair()`]: #tls_tls_createsecurepair_context_isserver_requestcert_rejectunauthorized_options [`tls.createServer()`]: #tls_tls_createserver_options_secureconnectionlistener +[`tls.getCiphers()`]: #tls_tls_getciphers [Chrome's 'modern cryptography' setting]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/education/tls#TOC-Cipher-Suites [DHE]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange [ECDHE]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman -- cgit v1.2.3