interesting.

I think, I can try run QUIC Interop locally to compare against QuicTLS

чт, 6 июл. 2023 г. в 22:08, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>:

> Hi all,
>
> as the subject says it, Fred managed to make QUIC mostly work on top of
> a regular OpenSSL. Credit goes to the NGINX team who found a clever and
> absolutely ugly way to abuse OpenSSL callbacks to intercept and inject
> data from/to the TLS hello messages. It does have limitations, such as
> 0-RTT not being supported, and maybe other ones we're not aware of. I'm
> hesitating in merging it because there are some non-negligible impacts
> for the QUIC ecosystem itself in doing this, ranging from a possibly
> lower performance or reliability that could disappoint some users of the
> protocol, to discouraging the efforts to get a real alternative stack
> working.
>
> I've opened the discussion on the QUIC working group here to collect
> various opinions and advices:
>
>
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/quic/?gbt=1&index=M9pkSGzTSHunNC1yeySaB3irCVo
>
> Unsurprizingly, the perception for now is mostly aligned with my first
> feelings, i.e. "OpenSSL will be happy and QUIC will be degraded, that's
> a bad idea". But I also know that on the WG we exclusively speak between
> implementors, who don't always have the users' perspective.
>
> I would encourage those who really want to ease QUIC adoption to read
> the thread above (possibly even share their opinion, that would be
> welcome) so that we can come to a consensus regarding this (e.g. merge,
> drop, merge conditioned at build time, or with an expert runtime option,
> anything else, I don't know). I feel like it's a difficult stretch to
> find the best approach. The "it's not possible at all with openssl,
> period" excuse is no longer true, however "it's only a degraded approach"
> remains true.
>
> I wouldn't like end-users to just think "pwah, all that for this, I'm
> not impressed" without realizing that they wouldn't be benefitting from
> everything. But maybe it would be good enough for most of those who are
> not going to rebuild QuicTLS or wolfSSL. I sincerely don't know and I
> do welcome opinions.
>
> Cheers,
> Willy
>
>

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