Hi,
I am trying with simple client server model where it is reading datat
from a file and calling SSL_write and similar thing is happening on other
end i.e. reading from SSL using SSL_read and writing to file. Itis taking
40 mins of time to copy file of size 600 MB and if I run a non-ssl client
server (i.e. pure TCP socket application ) it finishes in 5-6 mins and also
on same network scp is taking 10 mins. One thing I observerd by looking
into scp code that it does not use SSL provided APIs (i.e.SSL_Read or
SSL_Write) but they use it differenly i.e. might be directly calling
encryption APIs and writing data to sockets. But I don't have much
understanding what SSL_Write or SSL_read does internally . So wanted to
understand if there is any way to improve performance of SSL_Read or
SSL_write to achive high performance. Following are my client server
programmes. Here client writes file on server machine in hardcoded
location and name.
Client
----------------------------
//SSL-Client.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <resolv.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <openssl/ssl.h>
#include <openssl/err.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <netinet/tcp.h>
#include <netinet/ip.h>
#define FAIL -1
int OpenConnection(const char *hostname, int port)
{ int sd;
struct hostent *host;
struct sockaddr_in addr;
if ( (host = gethostbyname(hostname)) == NULL )
{
perror(hostname);
abort();
}
sd = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
bzero(&addr, sizeof(addr));
addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
addr.sin_port = htons(port);
addr.sin_addr.s_addr = *(long*)(host->h_addr);
if ( connect(sd, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, sizeof(addr)) != 0 )
{
close(sd);
perror(hostname);
abort();
}
return sd;
}
SSL_CTX* InitCTX(void)
{ SSL_METHOD *method;
SSL_CTX *ctx;
OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(); /* Load cryptos, et.al. */
SSL_load_error_strings(); /* Bring in and register error messages */
method = SSLv2_client_method(); /* Create new client-method instance */
ctx = SSL_CTX_new(method); /* Create new context */
if ( ctx == NULL )
{
ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
abort();
}
return ctx;
}
void ShowCerts(SSL* ssl)
{ X509 *cert;
char *line;
cert = SSL_get_peer_certificate(ssl); /* get the server's certificate */
if ( cert != NULL )
{
printf("Server certificates:\n");
line = X509_NAME_oneline(X509_get_subject_name(cert), 0, 0);
printf("Subject: %s\n", line);
free(line); /* free the malloc'ed string */
line = X509_NAME_oneline(X509_get_issuer_name(cert), 0, 0);
printf("Issuer: %s\n", line);
free(line); /* free the malloc'ed string */
X509_free(cert); /* free the malloc'ed certificate copy */
}
else
printf("No certificates.\n");
}
int main(int count, char *strings[])
{ SSL_CTX *ctx;
int server;
SSL *ssl;
char buf[1024];
int bytes;
char *hostname, *portnum;
char recvBuff[16*1024];
int fd=0;
int mode,i,n,len;
int total=0;
if ( count != 4 )
{
printf("usage: %s <hostname> <portnum><FileName>\n", strings[0]);
exit(0);
}
SSL_library_init();
hostname=strings[1];
portnum=strings[2];
ctx = InitCTX();
server = OpenConnection(hostname, atoi(portnum));
ssl = SSL_new(ctx); /* create new SSL connection state */
SSL_set_fd(ssl, server); /* attach the socket descriptor */
if ( SSL_connect(ssl) == FAIL ) /* perform the connection */
ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
else
{ char *msg = "Hello???";
printf("Connected with %s encryption\n", SSL_get_cipher(ssl));
ShowCerts(ssl); /* get any certs */
fd=open(strings[3],O_RDWR);
while ( (n = read(fd, recvBuff, sizeof(recvBuff)-1)) > 0)
{
recvBuff[n] = 0;
mode=n;
i=0;
while(mode>0)
{
len=SSL_write(ssl, recvBuff,mode ); /* encrypt & send
message */
total+=len;
mode=mode-len;
}
}
bytes = SSL_read(ssl, buf, sizeof(buf)); /* get reply & decrypt */
buf[bytes] = 0;
printf("Received: \"%s\"\n", buf);
SSL_free(ssl); /* release connection state */
}
close(server); /* close socket */
SSL_CTX_free(ctx); /* release context */
return 0;
}
----------------------------------------------------
Server Programme
-------------------------------------------------
//SSL-Server.c
#include <errno.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <resolv.h>
#include "openssl/ssl.h"
#include "openssl/err.h"
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <netinet/tcp.h>
#include <netinet/ip.h>
#define FAIL -1
int OpenListener(int port)
{ int sd;
struct sockaddr_in addr;
sd = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
bzero(&addr, sizeof(addr));
addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
addr.sin_port = htons(port);
addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
if ( bind(sd, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, sizeof(addr)) != 0 )
{
perror("can't bind port");
abort();
}
if ( listen(sd, 10) != 0 )
{
perror("Can't configure listening port");
abort();
}
return sd;
}
SSL_CTX* InitServerCTX(void)
{ SSL_METHOD *method;
SSL_CTX *ctx;
OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(); /* load & register all cryptos, etc. */
SSL_load_error_strings(); /* load all error messages */
method = SSLv2_server_method(); /* create new server-method instance */
ctx = SSL_CTX_new(method); /* create new context from method */
if ( ctx == NULL )
{
ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
abort();
}
return ctx;
}
void LoadCertificates(SSL_CTX* ctx, char* CertFile, char* KeyFile)
{
/* set the local certificate from CertFile */
if ( SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file(ctx, CertFile, SSL_FILETYPE_PEM) <= 0
)
{
ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
abort();
}
/* set the private key from KeyFile (may be the same as CertFile) */
if ( SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(ctx, KeyFile, SSL_FILETYPE_PEM) <= 0 )
{
ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
abort();
}
/* verify private key */
if ( !SSL_CTX_check_private_key(ctx) )
{
fprintf(stderr, "Private key does not match the public
certificate\n");
abort();
}
}
void ShowCerts(SSL* ssl)
{ X509 *cert;
char *line;
cert = SSL_get_peer_certificate(ssl); /* Get certificates (if
available) */
if ( cert != NULL )
{
printf("Server certificates:\n");
line = X509_NAME_oneline(X509_get_subject_name(cert), 0, 0);
printf("Subject: %s\n", line);
free(line);
line = X509_NAME_oneline(X509_get_issuer_name(cert), 0, 0);
printf("Issuer: %s\n", line);
free(line);
X509_free(cert);
}
else
printf("No certificates.\n");
}
void Servlet(SSL* ssl) /* Serve the connection -- threadable */
{ char buf[1024*16];
char reply[1024];
int sd, bytes;
int fd=0;
int mode,len,len1;
const char* HTMLecho="<html><body><pre>%s</pre></body></html>\n\n";
if ( SSL_accept(ssl) == FAIL ) /* do SSL-protocol accept */
ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
else
{
ShowCerts(ssl); /* get any certificates */
fd=open("/tmp/test1",O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0644);
while(1)
{
bytes = SSL_read(ssl, buf, sizeof(buf)); /* get request */
if ( bytes > 0 )
{
// printf("Client msg: \"%s\"\n", buf);
//sprintf(reply, HTMLecho, buf); /* construct reply */
//SSL_write(ssl, reply, strlen(reply)); /* send reply */
len=bytes;
mode=len;
while(mode>0)
{
len1=write(fd,buf,len);
mode=mode-len1;
len-=len1;
}
}
else {
ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
break;
}
}
}
sd = SSL_get_fd(ssl); /* get socket connection */
SSL_free(ssl); /* release SSL state */
close(sd); /* close connection */
}
int main(int count, char *strings[])
{ SSL_CTX *ctx;
int server;
char *portnum;
if ( count != 2 )
{
printf("Usage: %s <portnum>\n", strings[0]);
exit(0);
}
SSL_library_init();
portnum = strings[1];
ctx = InitServerCTX(); /* initialize SSL */
LoadCertificates(ctx, "mycert.pem", "mycert.pem"); /* load certs */
server = OpenListener(atoi(portnum)); /* create server socket */
while (1)
{ struct sockaddr_in addr;
socklen_t len = sizeof(addr);
SSL *ssl;
int client = accept(server, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, &len); /*
accept connection as usual */
printf("Connection: %s:%d\n",inet_ntoa(addr.sin_addr),
ntohs(addr.sin_port));
ssl = SSL_new(ctx); /* get new SSL state with context
*/
SSL_set_fd(ssl, client); /* set connection socket to SSL state
*/
Servlet(ssl); /* service connection */
}
close(server); /* close server socket */
SSL_CTX_free(ctx); /* release context */
}
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <openssl-us...@dukhovni.org>
wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 01:00:17PM +0530, Alok Sharma wrote:
>
> > I am writing one sample ssl based client server model which uses
> > SSL_Read & SSL_Write API provided by openssl.
>
> If you transfering each block of data as an RPC, with a round-trip
> acknowledgement before sending the next block, and the blocks are
> small enough, you're going to severely limit throughput.
>
> In bulk data transfer applications that stream data, TLS typically
> outperforms SSH, but a lot depends on the details.
>
> --
> Viktor.
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