The Secure Sockets Package

Secure Communication Module Reference Guide
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2.2 The Secure Sockets Package

Figure 1 and Figure 2 show class hierarchies for the Secure Sockets package.

Figure 1: Secure Sockets classes that are related to Networking package classes

Figure 2: Secure Sockets classes

Table 1 lists and briefly describes the classes and globals in the Secure Sockets package.

NOTE -- Any hyphens that appear in the following table are for formatting purposes only. Rogue Wave class and interface names do not include hyphens.

Table 1: Classes and globals in the Secure Sockets package

*RWAsymmetricKey*	Encapsulates the underlying cryptographic library's representation of the asymmetric key
*RWPrivateKey*	Typedef to *RWAsymmetricKey*
*RWPublicKey*	Typedef to *RWAsymmetricKey*
*RWSecureSocket*	Socket that provides functions to support SSL/TLS communications
*RWSecureSocketAttribute*	Encapsulates socket conditions
*RWSecureSocketContext*	Encapsulates the underlying cryptographic library's representation of a secure socket context
*RWSecureSocketError*	Exception class that derives from *RWInternalErr*.
*RWSecureSocketListener*	Creates a secure socket listener, which waits on a specified socket address for incoming connections
*RWSecureSocketMethod*	Encapsulates the various TLS/SSL protocol versions
*RWSecureSocketPackageInit*	Handles the initialization and cleanup of the underlying cryptographic library
*RWSecureSocketPortal*	Is an access point of a reliable byte stream communication channel that utilizes the SSL/TLS protocols for information security
*RWSecureSocketSelectError*	Exception class that derives from *RWInternalErr*.
*RWSecureSocketSession*	Used on the client side of the SSL/TLS protocol to reuse sessions to avoid the overhead of the SSL/TLS handshake
*RWX509Certificate*	Encapsulates the cryptographic library's representation of an X.509 certificate
`rwSecureSocketSelect()`	A global function that waits for a socket attribute to become `true`
`RW_CANNOT_USE_LOW_LEVEL_FUNCTIONS`	A macro that is defined when your application should not use the underlying cryptographic library simultaneously with the Secure Sockets package
`RW_SECSOCK_RNG_NEEDS_SEEDING`	A macro that is defined when your application must explicitly seed the random number generator
`RW_SECSOCK_SEEDRNGFROMSCREEN`	A macro that is defined when your application can seed the random number generator from screen data (Windows only)
`RW_USE_OPENSSL_LIBRARY`	A macro that is defined when the underlying cryptographic library is the OpenSSL library
*Exception Classes for Secure Sockets*	Exception classes that derive from *RWExternalErr*.

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