I agree. Unique TLS session ticket key per server or per server cluster, for
sure, but I have difficulty imagining pragmatic value in managing this on a per
certificate level, especially given the trade off you mention.
Dave
On Friday, March 4, 2016 10:39 AM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote:
Hi all,
while debugging some pretty serious shortcomings of the session tickets and
ssl_multicert.config, I’ve come to realize that the current implementation is
(likely) overly complex, with little additional value. So my question is this:
How important is it to configure unique session ticket keys for each
certificate?
If the answer is “not very” or even “not at all", I’d like to propose that we
drop this from ssl_multicert.config entirely, and only use a records.config
configured session ticket configuration. We’d retain the existing plumbing of
course, including the rotation mechanisms added recently. This approach also
has the nice property of easier management of these secrets. Of course, this
would be an incompatible change, so could only go into v7.0.0.
Thoughts? If you feel that we need to retain the unique ticket key blocks per
certificate, please speak up and explain why.
Cheers,
— Leif
