Hi,

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 02:55:21PM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote:
> > Well, OpenSSL considers this a "feature", not an "issue"... and being
> > able to turn off session resumption is also considered a "feature"...
> 
> Ahh, right!
> 
> I thought this was related to a CVE, but it seems not, according the
> OpenSSL changelog I found on the net [1].  SSL_OP_NO_TICKET comes with the 
> implementation of RFC4507, which was introduced in 0.9.8f.  I just double
> checked EL5, and it uses 0.9.8e as the base version.  According to the 
> RPM changelog, I don't see that RFC4507 has ever been backported.

Ah.  So if that is correct, our simplistic implementation "if it is not
there, just #define SSL_OP_NO_TICKET 0" would be perfectly safe in this
regard, then.

> But it would be good if others can double this and see if I've understood this
> correctly, just so I don't say anything wrong.

Indeed :-) - Steffann?

gert

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