Kaelen, Use OpenSSL. It comes with a SSL benchmark feature. Its pretty simple to use.It lets you test all crypto algorithms at once. Check it out.
Thanks Chaitanya M Bhatt http://www.performancecompetence.com On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Kaelen Proctor <[email protected]>wrote: > > I am trying to benchmark SSL handshakes per second with JMeter and I am > trying to see the performance difference between HTTPS requests with and > without SSL session reuse. However I seem to be running into the wall with > JMeter as I cannot determine how to have every HTTPS request use a brand > new SSL session id. As I've come to understand from Googling on this topic, > Java by default has an unlimited SSL session cache in which entries expire > after 24 hours. > > I've tried using the JMeter properties "https.use.cached.ssl.context" and > "https.sessioncontext.shared", but even together they don't cause new SSL > session ids to be used for each request. From playing around, at best if I > have 10 threads making 5 HTTPS requests, the first 10 requests will have > new SSL session ids, but the remaining 40 will reuse SSL sessions. I've > verified this behaviour with both ssldump (seeing the resumed SSL session > ids) and in my STunnel logs (when STunnel logs a previous session is > reused). > > Even setting the Java property "javax.net.ssl.sessionCacheSize" to 1 does > not seem to work, I'm guessing it must get applied per thread. > > So I was wondering if it possible through JMeter (or Java) to have every > HTTPS request use a new SSL session id? > > Kaelen Proctor > > > Confidentiality: The information contained in this e-mail and any > attachments are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you > may not copy or distribute this information. If you have received this > communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it > from your system. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
