On 21/08/2013 12:17, Joe Orton wrote:
> 
> I can't see we can or should do much here other than adding an option 
> (yay) which globally disables session ticket, SSL_OP_NO_TICKET in the 
> SSL_CTX, for the paranoid.
>       

That's already possible with SSLOpenSSLConfCmd using something like:

SSLOpenSSLConfCmd Options -SessionTicket

unfortunately that's only supported in trunk and the unreleased OpenSSL 1.0.2
and later.

> It would be desirable (perhaps) if we could rotate keys faster than once 
> the server lifetime, but this is shared state across the server so that 
> is definitely non-trivial.
> 

Yes you'd need a shared cache if the key couldn't be found locally and renew it
periodically. A bit like how OCSP stapling works IIRC.

> Any opinions here?
> 

The default key size is also 128 bits for the encryption and HMAC keys. That can
be easily increased.

Steve.
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