SSL Services

SSL service "ssl:C"

Command Header	Available since system-version	Available from service-sessions	Description
0x00010002			(<value-0x20 kernel PID header>) Initialize
0x000200C2			CreateContext
0x00030000			CreateRootCertChain
0x00040040			DestroyRootCertChain
0x00050082		Main-only	AddTrustedRootCA
0x00060080		Main-only	RootCertChainAddDefaultCert
0x00070080		Main-only	(u32 RootCertChain_contexthandle, u32 inval)
0x00080000			This writes an output u32 to cmdreply[2](created context handle).
0x00090040			(u32 handle for a context) This is used for destroying a context created by command 0x00080000.
0x000A0082			(u32 contexthandle, u32 size, ((Size<<4) | 10), inbufptr) Writes an output u32 to cmdreply[2]. This uses a context created by command 0x00080000.
0x000B0080			(u32 contexthandle, u8 inval2) Writes an output u32 to cmdreply[2]. This uses a context created by command 0x00080000.
0x000C0080			(u32 contexthandle, u32 inval) This uses a context created by command 0x00080000.
0x000D0084			(u32 size0, u32 size1, ((Size0<<4) | 10), inbufptr0, ((Size1<<4) | 10), inbufptr1) Writes an output u32 to cmdreply[2](created context handle). This is the same type of context created by command 0x000E0040.
0x000E0040			(u8 inval) Writes an output u32 to cmdreply[2](created context handle).
0x000F0040			(u32 handle for a context) This is used for destroying a context created by command 0x000E0040.
0x00100000			?
0x00110042			GenerateRandomData
0x00120042			InitializeConnectionSession
0x00130040			(u32 contexthandle) Presumably used to start the actual TLS connection(not tested).
0x00140040			(u32 inval) Writes two u32s to cmdreply[2] and cmdreply[3].
0x00150082		Context-only	Read
0x00160082			(u32 inval, u32 size, ((Size<<4) | 12), outbufptr) Writes an output u32 to cmdreply[2].
0x00170082			Write
0x00180080			ContextSetRootCertChain
0x00190080		Context-only	(u32 contexthandle, u32 handle) This writes the specified handle into the context state, this handle is the type of context from command 0x000E0040.
0x001A0080		Context-only	(u32 contexthandle, u32 handle) This writes some sort of context handle into the session context.
0x001B0080		Context-only	ContextClearOpt
0x001C00C4			(u32 inval, u32 size0, u32 size1, ((Size0<<4) | 12), outbufptr0, ((Size1<<4) | 12), outbufptr1)
0x001D0040			(u32 inval) Writes an output u32 to cmdreply[2].
0x001E0040			DestroyContext
0x001F0082		Context-only	ContextInitSharedmem
0x00200082		Context-only	(contexthandle, u32 size, ((Size<<4) | 10), inbufptr) Inbuf seems to be a cert?

Going by strings in the SSL sysmodule it appears the sysmodule uses RSA BSAFE(like certain other 3DS software), this is also likely where the "ssl:C" name comes from(RSA BSAFE "SSL-C").

Similar to HTTPC, each SSL context is used with a dedicated service session which gets opened after creating that context. Following creating the context + opening the service session, SSLC:InitializeConnectionSession is used from that service session for that context. Afterwards, all commands which require a handle for this context are done with this dedicated service session.

Internally there's a separate object vtable used with the above SSLC commands, for the main session(where SSLC:InitializeConnectionSession wasn't used), and context sessions where SSLC:InitializeConnectionSession was used. Error 0xD960BBF4 will be returned if a command was used with the wrong session type.

Like some other commands, 0x001F0082 and 0x00200082 are not used by HTTP-sysmodule.

Among commands 0x00180080..0x001B0080 none of them are completely mandatory. However, with the default settings at bare minimum a RootCertChain needs selected otherwise an untrusted-RootCA error will trigger eventually.

Error codes

Error code	Description
0xd8a0b836	The specified RootCertChain handle was not found in the linked-list.