Since nginx, does not cache anything and is thus unable to revalidate
anything but the Master Key, isn’t it a violation of the RFC not to
validate all the parameters?
What happens in the following scenario?
1°) Client negociates a new TLS session and stores the session ID
locally
2°) Server admin changes the configuration of his/her server to
completely
alter cipher suites, etc. and reloads the configuration (without
restarting
the server, so the Master Key is left untouched)
3°) Client tries to reuse its previously saved session ID with the right
Master Key
I guess the server will most probably reject the session bacu and
initiate
a new one with the same Master Key (please confirm)? Is it ‘legal’?
I admit that, in a way, the same happens when say, on a high-traffic
server, the cache rotation eliminates old entries which a client then
tries
to resume a session with…
Is it allowed to reduce the session ID mechanism to the check of the
Master
Key per RFC? Shouldn’t you either fully support the mechanism (with a
cache
of parameters server-side) or not at all?
Since nginx, does not cache anything and is thus unable to revalidate
anything but the Master Key, isn’t it a violation of the RFC not to
validate all the parameters?
You are misunderstanding what “ssl_session_cache none” does. It
doesn’t allow anything to be reused, just says so to clients.
What is the use of the ‘none’ value then? Should not there be only the ‘off’
one?
There must be some benefit to it, but I fail to catch it.
Initially it has been implemented for mail proxy module, but it seems
that none
is more graceful than off in general:
/*
* If the server explicitly says that it does not support
* session reuse (see SSL_SESS_CACHE_OFF above), then
* Outlook Express fails to upload a sent email to
* the Sent Items folder on the IMAP server via a separate IMAP
* connection in the background. Therefore we have a special
* mode (SSL_SESS_CACHE_SERVER|SSL_SESS_CACHE_NO_INTERNAL_STORE)
* where the server pretends that it supports session reuse,
* but it does not actually store any session.
*/
Thanks Igor, that makes the whole thing crystal clear!
What saves us there is the fact that, if I understand it well, the RFC
5077 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5077#section-3.4 states the server
decides by itself on the use of tickets and those have precedence over
identifiers.
But still, advertising something without actually supporting it must
lead
to cases where sessions reuse is believed to take place without ever
happening, harming performance… that was probably happening in
versions <
1.5.9.
Giving the possibility to accomodate with Outlook (and Microsoft
products
in general) numerous quirks is fine, but making it the default is
debatable… Maybe the docs should be more explicit about the reason of
the
existence of ‘none’? Code comments are clearer than the docs on this
matter.
Thanks Igor, that makes the whole thing crystal clear!
What saves us there is the fact that, if I understand it well, the RFC 5077
states the server decides by itself on the use of tickets and those have
precedence over identifiers.
Yes.
But still, advertising something without actually supporting it must lead to
cases where sessions reuse is believed to take place without ever happening,
harming performance… that was probably happening in versions < 1.5.9.
I do not think that it should harm performance.
Giving the possibility to accomodate with Outlook (and Microsoft products in
general) numerous quirks is fine, but making it the default is debatable…
I believe this is safe default and clients should not rely on resumed
sessions because
sessions have timeout defined by server security policy,
and server has limited session storage so old sessions are removed.
Maybe the docs should be more explicit about the reason of the existence of
‘none’? Code comments are clearer than the docs on this matter.
But still, advertising something without actually supporting it must lead to
cases where sessions reuse is believed to take place without ever happening,
harming performance… that was probably happening in versions < 1.5.9.
I do not think that it should harm performance.
Oh yes it does… I am surprised by your stance and I beg to differ.
Having quite some load from many clients on a web-server delivering content over
HTTPS, it relieves a lot of pain to save CPU cycles by avoiding a full handshake.
When a client browses a website, (s)he will initiate many connections. Beyond
the first one (ones with multiplexing?), session reuse kicks in. Repeat that for
each client and sum all the saved CPU cycles. Even an improper (non-scientific)
benchmark will show you improvement.
Session reuse is part of the effort of optimizing TLS trafic to minimize its
overhead. Have a talk about it with the W3C webperf group if you wish, to which
Ilya G. (participated at nginxconf 2014) belongs. Have a look at his
checklist too.
Sorry, I meant there is no performance difference between “none” and
“off” settings.
As to default value, builtin session cache was by default initially but
it turned out that
it leads to memory fragmentation. So the default value has been changed
to “off” and
later to “none”.
Of course shared cache is certainly better as default value but there is
no good understanding
what default cache size should be used. And now it becomes less
important with ticket introduction.
But still, advertising something without actually supporting it must lead
to cases where sessions reuse is believed to take place without ever
happening, harming performance… that was probably happening in versions <
1.5.9.
I do not think that it should harm performance.
Oh yes it does… I am surprised by your stance and I beg to differ.
Having quite some load from many clients on a web-server delivering
content
over HTTPS, it relieves a lot of pain to save CPU cycles by avoiding a
full
handshake.
When a client browses a website, (s)he will initiate many connections.
Beyond the first one (ones with multiplexing?), session reuse kicks in.
Repeat that for each client and sum all the saved CPU cycles. Even an
improper (non-scientific) benchmark will show you improvement.
Session reuse is part of the effort of optimizing TLS trafic to minimize
its overhead. Have a talk about it with the W3C webperf group https://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/ if you wish, to which Ilya G.
(participated at nginxconf 2014) belongs. Have a look at his checklist https://istlsfastyet.com/ too.
Giving the possibility to accomodate with Outlook (and Microsoft products
in general) numerous quirks is fine, but making it the default is debatable…
I believe this is safe default and clients should not rely on resumed
sessions because
sessions have timeout defined by server security policy,
and server has limited session storage so old sessions are removed.
Well, the mechanism behind TLS sessions is basically a trial-and-error
one. Even for tickets I would add, if the server changed its Master
Key
between ticket creation and reuse.
There is little-to-no overhead at trying an expired session ID/ticket
which
the client communicate in his initial message to the server. ID search
in
cache or ticket invalidation requires few overhead resource and in case
of
invalidation, normal protocol to initiate a new session resumes.
There is no guarantee a session exists, but there is everything to gain
from it if it does.
Sorry, I meant there is no performance difference between “none” and “off”
settings.
Well, the client believes he should remember every session ID and store
it
somewhere for nothing, reading/resending/writing it on every connection.
Small enough network traffic difference, though (the extra, useless ID
in
the ClientHello message could be considered harmless, even though those
extra bytes appear on each TLS session establishement).
As to default value, builtin session cache was by default initially but
it
turned out that
it leads to memory fragmentation. So the default value has been changed to
“off” and
later to “none”.
Of course shared cache is certainly better as default value but there is
no good understanding
what default cache size should be used. And now it becomes less important
with ticket introduction.
Total agreement there: I was not pushing for a default activating a
cache,
but rather for the clean ‘off’ setting.
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Igor S. [email protected] wrote:
Sorry, I meant there is no performance difference between “none” and “off”
settings.
Well, the client believes he should remember every session ID and store it
somewhere for nothing, reading/resending/writing it on every connection.
Small enough network traffic difference, though (the extra, useless ID in the
ClientHello message could be considered harmless, even though those extra bytes
appear on each TLS session establishment).
I believe this is negligible degradation for a client. These operations
can be only noticeable
on server which serves a lot of simultaneous clients.
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