Victor Thanks for your reply. Is there a specific reason why this is not supported by openssl?
Thanks Jyothi --- Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 03:31:36PM -0700, Jyothi > Jagadish wrote: > > > Hi > > I am looking at how to share SSL session between > > parent and child processes > > > > So scenario would be > > > > Application opens up a SSL session > > Does Read write > > Forks and then does read write > > Then when child process exits, the parent process > > would continue to read and write. > > This is not possible with OpenSSL, you have save > SSL_SESSION objects > in an external cache, which allows "session > resumption", saving CPU > cost of complex PKI handshakes, but there is no > support for migrating > SSL connections between processes, the state of the > symmetric cipher, > buffered encrypted and decrypted data, ... are not > serializable. > > -- > Viktor. > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project > http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List > openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]