[PATCH] session ticket support
Simon Josefsson
simon at josefsson.org
Tue Aug 4 13:59:03 CEST 2009
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org> writes:
> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure, couldn't there be situations where applications want to
>> use the RFC ticket format? Maybe the format should be configurable, so
>> the application can decide. Since you have already written support for
>> the RFC ticket format, I think it would be nice to support it somehow.
>
> Actually the ticket format is transparent (or better encrypted) to
> everyone except gnutls. Thus there is very little incentive to keep
> separate code for something that is useful only to us (if someone can
> use our ticket, it should be problem in our encryption :).
If we use our own pack/unpack format, it won't be possible to set up TLS
load-balancing between GnuTLS and some other implementation that accepts
session tickets on another format. Maybe that is a minor issue, but it
could come up. Or is there some other reason why that setup would never
work anyway?
/Simon
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