⚙️Blaze SSL Async

This is a minimal implementation of the SSLv3 protocol. It supports only the TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA and TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 ciphers. It does not implement all SSLv3 features

This is used by Pocket Relay for locally handling game connections from Mass Effect 3 which use a home grown SSLv3 implementaton by EA and as such cannot use any other newer protocol.

📌 Important note

This is not intended to be a secure SSL implementation. This is intended for legacy games and other software where it is not possible to use a more secure protocol.

If you are looking for a security focus SSL implementation you should instead check out https://github.com/rustls/rustls or https://github.com/sfackler/rust-native-tls

This implementation was designed specifically for Pocket Relay for use with Mass Effect 3.

It does not support any of the following features:

• Session resumption
• Client certificate authentication
• Server certificate verification (Trusts all server certificates)
• Server key exchange
• Recovering from warning alerts (All warnings are treated as fatal)
• SSL Compression modes

📄 Usage

Add dependency to your cargo dependencies

blaze-ssl-async = "^0.3"

Crate Features

The default features are ["blaze-cert"]

Feature	Description
blaze-cert	Includes a built in default BlazeServerContext that uses a certificate built to bypass verification of older EA ProtoSSL implementations

Connecting to a server

The example below if for connecting to a server as a client

// BlazeStream is a wrapper over tokio TcpStream
use blaze_ssl_async::BlazeStream;

// Tokio read write extensions used for read_exact and write_all
use tokio::io::{AsyncReadExt, AsyncWriteExt};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
    // BlazeStream::connect takes in any value that implements ToSocketAddrs
    // some common implementations are "HOST:PORT" and ("HOST", PORT)
    let mut stream = BlazeStream::connect(("159.153.64.175", 42127)).await?;

    // TODO... Read from the stream as you would a normal TcpStream
    let mut buf = [0u8; 12];
    stream.read_exact(&mut buf).await?;
    // Write the bytes back
    stream.write_all(&buf).await?;
    // You **MUST** flush BlazeSSL streams or else the data will never
    // be sent to the client (Attempt to read will automatically flush)
    stream.flush().await?;

    Ok(())
}

Binding a server

The example below is an example for creating a server that accepts clients

// BlazeListener is wrapper over tokios TcpListener
use blaze_ssl_async::{BlazeListener, BlazeServerContext};
// Tokio read write extensions used for read_exact and write_all
use tokio::io::{AsyncReadExt, AsyncWriteExt};
use std::sync::Arc;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
    let context: Arc<BlazeServerContext> = Default::default(); 
    // Bind a listener accepts the same address values as the tokio TcpListener
    let listener = BlazeListener::bind(("0.0.0.0", 42127), context).await?;

    // Accept new connections
    loop {
        // Accept the initial TcpStream without SSL 
        let accept = listener.accept().await?;
        tokio::spawn(async move {
            // Complete the SSL handshake process in a spawned task
            let (stream, addr) = accept.finish_accept()
                .await
                .expect("Failed to finish accepting stream");

            // Read and write to the stream the same as in the client example
        });
    }
}

🧾 License

The MIT License (MIT)

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