On 8/14/2012 7:45 PM, Xuelei Fan wrote:

197:  You're not planning to process (e.g.
ServerHandshaker/ClientHandshaker.process_message) the consumed
handshaking bytes immediately during the createSocket call, are you? You
still need to allow the user time to set the socket
options/SSLParameters/etc.  I was expecting in this method you'd just
suck in the consumed bytes into temporary storage, then create/return
the socket, and then when the handshaking is started, you then read out
from the temporary storage until you run out, then you switch to the
Socket's InputStream.

You're right. It is allowed to set more options in the returned socket
before kick off handshake.

197:  This needs some wordsmithing here.  This method will produce the
SSLSocket that will be consuming this data, so of course it has to be
called first.

I'm not sure I understand your point. Please comment it again with the
revised APIs if you still have concerns.

I just didn't understand much of this paragraph.

1. You have to call this method, then set up your parameters, then start
your handshaking.  So the first half of this sentence doesn't apply.

Oh, I know your concerns. What I want to express is that before the
calling to method, the caller should not do real handshaking. The logic
I concerned looks like:
     // 1. accept a socket
     // 2. read ClientHello and reply ServerHello to output stream.
     // 3. call this method
     SSLSocket sslSocket = (SSLSocket)sslSocketFactory.createSocket(
                     socke, inputStream, true);

because the handshaking has started in step 2, then in step 3, we cannot
get a proper SSLSocket.

How would the ServerHello be generated until you call this method and then start the handshaking on the returned SSLSocket? You said in a previous internal conversation that SSLExplore would not generate any ServerHello, so this can't be what you mean. Are you talking about layering another SSLSocket over a already layered SSLSocket?

2. "consumed network data is resumable" wasn't clear either.  To me this
should mean that you can obtain the data which has already been read
from "s".

Yes, need wordsmithing here.

3. "Otherwise, the behavior of the return socket is not defined" lost
me.  Does this mean that that SSLParameters and assorted settings are
not otherwise defined?

See above example.

I think I need the above answered before I can comment further here.

I think you could delete this paragraph.

 From your second email:

Thought more about the design, I would have to say that we cannot return
the default value in sslParameters.getServerNames().  Otherwise, the
following two block of codes look very weird to me:
      // case one:
1   SSLparameters sslParameters = sslSocket.getSSLParameters();
2   sslParameters.clearServerName("host_name");
3   Map<String, String> names = sslParameters.getServerNames();
4   sslSocket.setSSLParameters(sslParameters);
5   sslParameters = sslSocket.getSSLParameters();
6   names = sslParameters.getServerNames();

In line 3, the returned map does not contain "host_name" entry. But in
line 6, it may be expected that no "host_name" in the returned map. But
if we want to return default values, line 6 do need to return a map
containing "host_name".  The behavior is pretty confusing. We may want
to try avoid the confusion.

I'm not following your confusion, it seemed pretty straightforward to
me, it works much like CipherSuites.  We have a set of ciphersuites
which are enabled by default.  We can turn some off by using
SSLParameters.  Expanding a bit on your example here, I'll describe what
I think would happen internally/externally:

1    SSLSocket sslSocket = mySSLSocketFactory.createSocket(
         "www.example.com", 443);

mySSLSocketFactory sets any initial parameters as usual.  SSLSocketImpl
knows it's connecting to www.example.com and automatically stores
"host_name" -> "www.example.com" in its local host data (map or separate
variables).

2   SSLparameters sslParameters = sslSocket.getSSLParameters();

SSLSocketImpl.getSSLParameters() creates a SSLParameters, and sets the
hostmap to the one value "host_name" -> "www.example.com"

If the application want to get the "default values", they just pull them
out of the SSLParameters here

3   sslParameters.clearServerName("host_name");

Or sslParameters.setServerName("host_name", null)?

User just decided to clear it.  Ok, that's what we do.  It becomes an
empty map in SSLParameters.

4   Map<String, String> names = sslParameters.getServerNames();

Returns empty Map.

As far as good.

5   sslSocket.setSSLParameters(sslParameters);

SSLSocketImpl.setSSLParameters is empty, so SSLSocketImpl takes this
SSLParameters and as a result, clears it's internal "host_name" map to
null, and thus won't send anything out since it's empty.

We have problems here.  We need to support that if an application does
not specified host_name value, we should use default values.
   I.   SSLParameters sslParameters = new SSLParameters();
   II.  sslParameters.setCipherSuites(...);
   III. SSLSocket sslSocket =
           sslSocketFactory.createSocket("www.example.com", 443)
   IV.  sslSocket.setSSLParameters(sslParameters);

Before line IV and after line II, the sslParameters.getServerNames() are
empty. In line IV, we need to make sure the internal "host_name",
"www.example.com" is used as default value, and send it to server in
SNI.  That's the default behaviors in JDK 7.  We cannot break it without
strong desires.

I think it means that we cannot clear the internal "host_name" when the
sslParameters.getServerNames() return empty.

Does it make sense to you?

Ok, that's an issue, I was assuming people would generally get a SSLParameters from the SSLSocket/SSLEngine, which would have prepopulated values such as CipherSuites/Protocols and SNI values. Now I hear what you're saying.

So in SSLSocket/SSLEngine, we have a very similar situation with the CipherSuites/Protocols. The way we did it there was if SSLParameters.getCipherSuites() is null (that is, has not been set in this instance), we let the default values stand (that is we did not call SSLSocket.setEnabledCipherSuites()). You could do something like that with the SNI info. I've always felt the setServerName/getServerName should take/return the same Map<String,String> value, but you felt strongly about a setServerName(String, String) so I didn't push it. If we didn't set this value, then the original value could stand.

Maybe your current design addresses this in a better way, I'll have to look at this in the morning, I still have a couple hours of home stuff to do before I can go to bed.

Brad

Thanks,
Xuelei

6   sslParameters = sslSocket.getSSLParameters();

SSLSocketImpl.getSSLParameters() creates a SSLParameters, which sees
that there's no name indication, so it creates an empty name map and
stores in SSLParameters.

7   names = sslParameters.getServerNames();

returns empty.

It's no longer the default value, because they have specifically set the
value.

HTH,

Brad


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