Motivation:
HTTP is a plaintext protocol which means that someone may be able
to eavesdrop the data. To prevent this, HTTPS should be used whenever
possible. However, maintaining using https:// in all URLs may be
difficult. The nohttp tool can help here. The tool scans all the files
in a repository and reports where http:// is used.
Modifications:
- Added nohttp (via checkstyle) into the build process.
- Suppressed findings for the websites
that don't support HTTPS or that are not reachable
Result:
- Prevent using HTTP in the future.
- Encourage users to use HTTPS when they follow the links they found in
the code.
Motivation:
This reverts commit 825916c7f0 as it turns out it introduced a big performance regression.
Modifications:
Revert 825916c7f0
Result:
Performance of TLS is back to normal
Motivation:
At the moment we don't support session caching for client side when using native SSLEngine implementation and our implementation of SSLSessionContext is incomplete.
Modification:
- Consume netty-tcnative changes to be able to cache session in an external cache
- Add and adjust unit tests to test session caching
- Add an in memory session cache that is hooked into native SSLEngine
Result:
Support session caching on the client and server side
Motivation:
BoringSSL supports to automatically manage the session tickets to be used and so also rotate them etc. This is often prefered by users as it removed some complexity. We should support to make use of this.
Modifications:
- Allow to have setSessionTickets() called without an argument or an empty array
- Add tests
Result:
Easier usage of session tickets
Motivation:
OpenSslSession.getLocalCertificates() and getLocalPrincipal() must return null on client side if mTLS is not used as stated in the API documentation. At the moment this is not always the case
Modifications:
- Ensure we only return non-null if mTLS is used
- Add unit tests
Result:
Follow SSLSession API contract
Motiviation:
During profiling it showed that a lot of time during the handshake is spent by parsing the key / chain over and over again. We should cache these parsed structures if possible to reduce the overhead during handshake.
Modification:
- Use new APIs provided by https://github.com/netty/netty-tcnative/pull/360.
- Introduce OpensslStaticX509KeyManagerFactory which allows to wrap another KeyManagerFactory and caches the key material provided by it.
Result:
In benchmarks handshake times have improved by 30 %.
Motivation:
We had some useless synchronized (ReferenceCountedOpenSslContext.class) blocks in our code which could slow down concurrent collecting and creating of ReferenceCountedOpenSslContext instances. Beside this we missed a few guards.
Modifications:
Use ReadWriteLock to correctly guard. A ReadWriteLock was choosen as SSL.newSSL(...) will be called from multiple threads all the time so using synchronized would be worse and there would be no way for the JIT to optimize it away
Result:
Faster concurrent creating and collecting of ReferenceCountedOpenSslContext instances and correctly guard in all cases.
Motivation:
tcnative was moved into an internal package.
Modifications:
Update package for tcnative imports.
Result:
Use correct package names for tcnative.
Motivation:
Previous versions of netty-tcnative used the org.apache.tomcat namespace which could lead to problems when a user tried to use tomcat and netty in the same app.
Modifications:
Use netty-tcnative which now uses a different namespace and adjust code to some API changes.
Result:
Its now possible to use netty-tcnative even when running together with tomcat.
Motivation:
OpenSslEngine and OpenSslContext currently rely on finalizers to ensure that native resources are cleaned up. Finalizers require the GC to do extra work, and this extra work can be avoided if the user instead takes responsibility of releasing the native resources.
Modifications:
- Make a base class for OpenSslENgine and OpenSslContext which does not have a finalizer but instead implements ReferenceCounted. If this engine is inserted into the pipeline it will be released by the SslHandler
- Add a new SslProvider which can be used to enable this new feature
Result:
Users can opt-in to a finalizer free OpenSslEngine and OpenSslContext.
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/4958
Motivation:
At the moment SSLSession.getId() may always return an empty byte array when OpenSSLEngine is used. This is as we not set SSL_OP_NO_TICKET on the SSLContext and so SSL_SESSION_get_id(...) will return an session id with length of 0 if tickets are not used.
Modifications:
- Set SSL_OP_NO_TICKET by default and only clear it if the user requests the usage of session tickets.
- Add unit test
Result:
Ensure consistent behavior between different SSLEngine implementations.
Motivation:
When the OpenSslContext is gc'ed and the user still hold a reference to OpenSslSessionContext / OpenSslSessionStats it is possible to produce a segfault when calling
a method on any of these that tries to pass down the ctx pointer to the native methods. This is because the OpenSslContext finalizer will free the native pointer.
Modifications:
Change OpenSslSessionContext / OpenSslSessionContext to store a reference to OpenSslContext and so prevent the GC to collect it as long as the user has a reference to OpenSslSessionContext / OpenSslSessionContext.
Result:
No more sefault possible.
Motivation:
We should provide a better way to set session keys that not use the deprecated method of netty-tcnative.
Modifications:
- Add OpenSslSessionTicketKey
- Expose new method on OpenSslServerContext and deprecate the old method.
Result:
Easier to use and can remove the deprecated method later on.
Motivation:
It is sometimes useful to enable / disable the session cache.
Modifications:
* Add OpenSslSessionContext.setSessionCacheEnabled(...) and isSessionCacheEnabled()
Result:
It is now possible to enable / disable cache on the fly
Motivation:
At the moment it is not possible to make use of the session cache when OpenSsl is used. This should be possible when server mode is used.
Modifications:
- Add OpenSslSessionContext (implements SSLSessionContext) which exposes all the methods to modify the session cache.
- Add various extra methods to OpenSslSessionContext for extra functionality
- Return OpenSslSessionContext when OpenSslEngine.getSession().getContext() is called.
- Add sessionContext() to SslContext
- Move OpenSsl specific session operations to OpenSslSessionContext and mark the old methods @deprecated
Result:
It's now possible to use session cache with OpenSsl
