-TLS Session Resumption
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-TLS Session Resumption for TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 connections can be used (defined
-in RFC 5077 for 1.2). The support for this can be included by building with
-EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME defined. This requires GnuTLS 3.6.3 or OpenSSL 1.1.1
-(or later).
-
-Session resumption (this is the "stateless" variant) involves the server sending
-a "session ticket" to the client on one connection, which can be stored by the
-client and used for a later session. The ticket contains sufficient state for
-the server to reconstruct the TLS session, avoiding some expensive crypto
-calculation and one full packet roundtrip time.
-
-Operational cost/benefit:
- The extra data being transmitted costs a minor amount, and the client has
- extra costs in storing and retrieving the data.
-
- In the Exim/Gnutls implementation the extra cost on an initial connection
- which is TLS1.2 over a loopback path is about 6ms on 2017-laptop class hardware.
- The saved cost on a subsequent connection is about 4ms; three or more
- connections become a net win. On longer network paths, two or more
- connections will have an average lower startup time thanks to the one
- saved packet roundtrip. TLS1.3 will save the crypto cpu costs but not any
- packet roundtrips.
-
- Since a new hints DB is used, the hints DB maintenance should be updated
- to additionally handle "tls".
-
-Security aspects:
- The session ticket is encrypted, but is obviously an additional security
- vulnarability surface. An attacker able to decrypt it would have access
- all connections using the resumed session.
- The session ticket encryption key is not committed to storage by the server
- and is rotated regularly (OpenSSL: 1hr, and one previous key is used for
- overlap; GnuTLS 6hr but does not specify any overlap).
- Tickets have limited lifetime (2hr, and new ones issued after 1hr under
- OpenSSL. GnuTLS 2hr, appears to not do overlap).
-
- There is a question-mark over the security of the Diffie-Helman parameters
- used for session negotiation. TBD. q-value; cf bug 1895
-
-Observability:
- New log_selector "tls_resumption", appends an asterisk to the tls_cipher "X="
- element.
-
- Variables $tls_{in,out}_resumption have bits 0-4 indicating respectively
- support built, client requested ticket, client offered session,
- server issued ticket, resume used. A suitable decode list is provided
- in the builtin macro _RESUME_DECODE for ${listextract {}{}}.
-
-Issues:
- In a resumed session:
- $tls_{in,out}_cipher will have values different to the original (under GnuTLS)
- $tls_{in,out}_ocsp will be "not requested" or "no response", and
- hosts_require_ocsp will fail
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