List of SSL OP Flags

This page lists all the SSL_OP flags available in OpenSSL. These values are passed to the SSL_CTX_set_options(), SSL_CTX_clear_options() functions and returned by the SSL_CTX_get_options() function (and corresponding SSL-equivalents).

Options with a value of 0 have no effect.

Table of Options

Option Name	SSL_OP_ALL	Description	1.0.2 value	1.1.0 value	1.1.1 value
SSL_OP_MICROSOFT_SESS_ID_BUG	Yes	No effect.	0x00000001	0	0**
SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_CHALLENGE_BUG	Yes	No effect.	0x00000002	0	0**
SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT	Yes	Allow legacy insecure renegotiation between OpenSSL and unpatched servers only.	0x00000004	0x00000004	0x00000004U
SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_REUSE_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG	Yes	No effect.	0x00000008	0	0**
SSL_OP_SSLREF2_REUSE_CERT_TYPE_BUG		No effect.	0	Not defined	Not defined
SSL_OP_TLSEXT_PADDING	Yes	Adds a padding extension to ensure the ClientHello size is never between 256 and 511 bytes in length.	0x00000010	0x00000010	0x00000010U
SSL_OP_MICROSOFT_BIG_SSLV3_BUFFER	Yes	Accept large records (18K+) from Microsoft servers/clients.	0x00000020	0	0**
SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG	Yes	Don't prefer ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be Safari on OS X. OS X 10.8...10.8.3 has broken support for ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers.	0x00000040	0x00000040	0x00000040U
SSL_OP_MSIE_SSLV2_RSA_PADDING		No effect.	0	0	0
SSL_OP_SSLEAY_080_CLIENT_DH_BUG	Yes	Allow invalid client DH parameters during client key exchange.	0x00000080	0	0**
SSL_OP_TLS_D5_BUG	Yes	Allow invalid RSA encrypted length from client during client key exchange.	0x00000100	0	0**
SSL_OP_TLS_BLOCK_PADDING_BUG	Yes	Compensate for incorrect padding.	0x00000200	0	0**
SSL_OP_ALLOW_NO_DHE_KEX		In TLSv1.3 allow a non-(EC)DHE-based key exchange mode	Not defined	Not defined	0x00000400U
SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS	Yes	Disables a counter-measure against a SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0 protocol vulnerability affecting CBC ciphers, which cannot be handled by some broken (Microsoft) SSL implementations.	0x00000800	0x00000800	0x00000800U
SSL_OP_NO_QUERY_MTU		DTLS PMTU option.	0x00001000	0x00001000	0x00001000U
SSL_OP_COOKIE_EXCHANGE		Turn on Cookie Exchange (on relevant for servers).	0x00002000	0x00002000	0x00002000U
SSL_OP_NO_TICKET		Don't use RFC4507 ticket extension.	0x00004000	0x00004000	0x00004000U
SSL_OP_CISCO_ANYCONNECT		Use Cisco's "speshul" version of DTLS_BAD_VER (as client).	0x00008000	0x00008000	0x00008000U
SSL_OP_NO_SESSION_RESUMPTION_ON_RENEGOTIATION		As server, disallow session resumption on renegotiation.	0x00010000	0x00010000	0x00010000U
SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION		Don't use compression even if supported.	0x00020000	0x00020000	0x00020000U
SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION		Permit unsafe legacy renegotiation.	0x00040000	0x00040000	0x00040000U
SSL_OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE		If set, always create a new key when using tmp_ecdh parameters.	0x00080000	0	0
SSL_OP_NO_ENCRYPT_THEN MAC		Disable encrypt-then-MAC	Not defined	Not defined	0x00080000U
SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE		If set, always create a new key when using tmp_dh parameters (In recent 1.0.2, does nothing: retained for compatibility).	0x00100000	0	0
SSL_OP_EPHEMERAL_RSA		No effect.	0	0	0
SSL_OP_PRIORITIZE_CHACHA		Prioritize ChaCha20Poly1305 on servers when client does.	Not defined	Not defined	0x00200000U
SSL_OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE		Set on servers to choose the cipher according to the server's preferences	0x00400000	0x00400000	0x00400000U
SSL_OP_TLS_ROLLBACK_BUG		Allow a client to specify SSLv3.0 in the pre-master secret even if TLSv1.0 was specified in the ClientHello.	0x00800000	0x00800000	0x00800000U
SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2		Disable SSLv2.	0x01000000	0	0
SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3		Disable SSLv3.	0x02000000	0x02000000	0x02000000U
SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1/SSL_OP_NO_DTLSv1		Disable TLSv1/DTLSv1.	0x04000000	0x04000000	0x04000000U
SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2/SSL_OP_NO_DTLSv1_2		Disable TLSv1.2/DTLSv1.2.	0x08000000	0x08000000	0x08000000U
SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1		Disable TLSv1.1.	0x10000000	0x10000000	0x10000000U
SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_CA_DN_BUG			0x20000000	0	0
SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_3		Diable TLSv1.3	Not defined	Not defined	0x20000000U
SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_DEMO_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG			0x40000000	0	0
SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION		Disallow all renegotiation	Not defined	Not defined	0x40000000U
SSL_OP_CRYPTOPRO_TLSEXT_BUG	Yes	Adds a ServerHello TLSEXT when using a GOST cipher.	0x80000000	0x80000000	0x80000000U
SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK_1		No effect.	0	0	0
SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK_2		No effect.	0	0	0
SSL_OP_NO_SSL_MASK		SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3|SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1|SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1|SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2|SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_3	0x1F000000	0x1E000000	0x3E000000U
SSL_OP_ALL	Yes	Default set of options.	0x80000BFF	0x80000BFF	0x80000854U

SSL_OP_ALL

In OpenSSL 1.1.1, the SSL_OP_ALL option changed value. This means that 1.1.0 and 1.1.1, although ABI compatible, have different values for default enabled options. The result of this is that several option bits marked by ** cannot be re-assigned until 1.2.0.

As of 1.1.0, these options are enabled by default via SSL_OP_ALL:

• SSL_OP_CRYPTOPRO_TLSEXT_BUG
• SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS
• SSL_OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT
• SSL_OP_TLSEXT_PADDING
• SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG)

Protocol Version Options

The following options control the protocols enabled on an SSL or SSL_CTX:

• SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2
• SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3
• SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1
• SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
• SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2
• SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_3
• SSL_OP_NO_DTLSv1
• SSL_OP_NO_DTLSv1_2

These options are deprecated as of 1.1.0, use SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version() and SSL_CTX_set_max_proto_version() instead.

Historical Options and Notes

SSL_OP_SSLREF2_REUSE_CERT_TYPE_BUG

This option does nothing, but was retained for compatibility. In 1.0.1 this option had a value of 0x00000010, but that was taken over by SSL_OP_TLS_PADDING in 1.0.2; this option's value was changed to 0 in 1.0.2. It was included in SSL_OP_ALL. The defintion was removed from 1.1.0.

SSL_OP_MSIE_SSLV2_RSA_PADDING

This option does nothing, but was retained for compatibility. In 1.0.1, this option had a value of 0x00000040; this option's value was changed to 0 in 1.0.2.

SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE

If set, always create a new key when using tmp_dh parameters. As of 1.0.2f single-DH key use is always on, and this option does nothing, and is retained for compatibility.

SSL_OP_EPHEMERAL_RSA

This option does nothing, but was retained for compatibility. In 1.0.1, this option had a value of 0x00200000; this option's value was changed to 0 in 1.0.2. This option always used the tmp_rsa key when doing RSA operations, even when this violated protocol specs.

SSL_OP_PRIORITIZE_CHACHA

This option has no effect if SSL_OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE is not enabled.

SSL_OP_TLS_ROLLBACK_BUG

This option had a value of 0x00000400 in 0.9.6. If set, a server will allow a client to issue a SSLv3.0 version number as latest version supported in the premaster secret, even when TLSv1.0 (version 3.1) was announced in the client hello. Normally this is forbidden to prevent version rollback attacks.

SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK_1

This option does nothing, but was retained for compatibility. Prior to 1.0.1, this option had a value of 0x08000000. The option would deliberately change the ciphertext, this is a check for the PKCS#1 attack.

SSL_OP_PKCS1_CHECK_2

This option does nothing, but was retained for compatibility. Prior to 1.0.1, this option had a value of 0x10000000. The option would deliberately change the ciphertext, this is a check for the PKCS#1 attack.