On 04 Mar 2016, at 13:30, B.R. <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Igor Sysoev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry, I meant there is no performance difference between “none” and “off” 
> settings.
> 
> ​Well, the client believes he should remember every session ID and store it 
> somewhere for nothing, reading/resending/writing it on every connection.
> Small enough network traffic difference, though (the extra, useless ID in the 
> ClientHello message could be considered harmless, even though those extra 
> bytes appear on each TLS session establishment).

I believe this is negligible degradation for a client. These operations can be 
only noticeable
on server which serves a lot of simultaneous clients.

> As to default value, builtin session cache was by default initially but it 
> turned out that
> it leads to memory fragmentation. So the default value has been changed to 
> “off” and
> later to “none”.
> 
> Of course shared cache is certainly better as default value but there is no 
> good understanding
> what default cache size should be used. And now it becomes less important 
> with ticket introduction.
> 
> Total agreement there: I was not pushing for a default activating a cache, 
> but rather for the clean 'off' setting.​
> ---
> B. R.



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Igor Sysoev
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