Missing DTLS support about gen_coap

[gotthardp]

Hello everyone. It looks like DTLS (in some form) may be in Erlang 19. I'm going to give it a try.

[gotthardp]

Update: The commit erlang/otp@1e6942e suggests that a beta DTLS (non-production) will be available in Erlang/OTP 19.2, which may be released soon.

[hachreak]

Hi, Is it fully implemented now the DTLS in erlang?
Are there any plan to support it on CoAP? :)

[gotthardp]

Hi. I don't think DTLS is supported in Erlang, do you? Once DTLS is in Erlang, I will add it to gen_coap.

[RoadRunnr]

@gotthardp you could try https://github.com/RoadRunnr/dtlsex for the moment.

[hachreak]

Hi RoadRunnr, I found your PR!
I'd like to use CoAP on my project and use the secure version on top of DTLS, I think, it'll be mandatory.
Can you tell us more about the current implementation state? :)
Thanks

[hachreak]

@gotthardp do you think the dtlsex project is usable to use it on gen_coap? (waiting the dtls is integrated on otp)

[gotthardp]

Nope. Doesn't work. The implementation is incomplete.

[edescourtis]

What about now in Erlang 19.1?

commit b0d29cc77f3c8d4d63dabb2f00570b0130f9f175
Merge: 08ff462 01e9582
Author: Ingela Anderton Andin [email protected]
Date: Tue Sep 6 15:49:12 2016 +0200

Merge branch 'ingela/ssl/dtls-progress/connection-states-as-maps' into maint

* ingela/ssl/dtls-progress/connection-states-as-maps:
  dtls: fix encoding of client hello cookie
  dtls: Prepare start of DTLS connection manager with SSL app
  ssl: Refactor to use maps for the connection states
  ssl, dtls: Refactor sni handling
  dtls: Add close/5
  dtls: Add renegotiate/2
  dtls: Add protocol event handling
  ssl: Refactor code so that tls and dtls can share more code
  ssl, dtls: Disable V2 compatibility clause from ssl_handshake:update_handshake_history
  ssl: Make sure common code for TLS and DTLS uses the TLS Version
  ssl: remove unused RecordCB argument from master_secret
  dtls: Add reinit_handshake_data/1 to dtls
  dtls: replace tls_record with RecordCB in connection_info
  Fix version numbers and dependencies

[gotthardp]

I'm aware of this commit. Despite it was never announced DTLS is ready I tried to implement a simple DTLS client just after they made this commit, but I didn't make it work. It was producing strange errors. My feeling is that the implementation is still incomplete. But perhaps I didn't try hard enough.

[gotthardp]

Done in v0.2.0