Disable TLS Session Tickets, which we were apparently getting for free

OpenSSL 1.0.0 added an implementation of TLS session tickets, a
"feature" that let session resumption occur without server-side state
by giving clients an encrypted "ticket" that the client could present
later to get the session going again with the same keys as before.
OpenSSL was giving the keys to decrypt these tickets the lifetime of
the SSL contexts, which would have been terrible for PFS if we had
long-lived SSL contexts.  Fortunately, we don't.  Still, it's pretty
bad.  We should also drop these, since our use of the extension stands
out with our non-use of session cacheing.

Found by nextgens. Bugfix on all versions of Tor when built with
openssl 1.0.0 or later.  Fixes bug 7139.
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Nick Mathewson
2012-10-17 19:57:27 -04:00
parent 84f47ffc46
commit 8743080a28
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@@ -804,6 +804,14 @@ tor_tls_context_new(crypto_pk_env_t *identity, unsigned int key_lifetime,
#ifdef SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1
SSL_CTX_set_options(result->ctx, SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1);
#endif
/* Disable TLS tickets if they're supported. We never want to use them;
* using them can make our perfect forward secrecy a little worse, *and*
* create an opportunity to fingerprint us (since it's unusual to use them
* with TLS sessions turned off).
*/
#ifdef SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
SSL_CTX_set_options(result->ctx, SSL_OP_NO_TICKET);
#endif
if (
#ifdef DISABLE_SSL3_HANDSHAKE