Thank you both for bringing this to my attention, your points are invaluable.
If this is something which gets set from server on client side. can client override this?. Can i change this to something less and try?. Has anyone tried?. Whats the option in openssl.conf or some other place?. -thanks harish On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:08 PM Matt Caswell <m...@openssl.org> wrote: > > > On 23/01/2021 15:22, John Thoe wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > The session reuse question posted on the mailing list earlier > > ( > https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/2021-January/013360.html) > > reminded of a somewhat similar question I have. > > > > As per the docs, > > https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/man3/SSL_get_default_timeout.html, > > it says the default value is 300 seconds for which a session resuse > > will be accepted. The docs say that it is the same for all > > protocols. > > > > However I tried it with my setup where I didn't explicitly set the > > timeout and I am getting 7200 seconds as the default value. s_client > > output: TLS session ticket lifetime hint: 7200 (seconds). My client > > openssl.conf has no setting override (not that it should matter > > because this is a server preference). No OpenSSL settings on the > > server have been modified as well. > > Looks to me like the docs are wrong. They probably should say 7200. > > > > > > In ssl/ssl_sess.c#L80, the code matches the document: ss->timeout = > > 60 * 5 + 4; /* 5 minute timeout by default */ ... (with additional > > four seconds?) > > > This gets set during construction and then later overwritten when we > actually get a new session via "ssl_get_new_session": > > /* If the context has a default timeout, use it */ > if (s->session_ctx->session_timeout == 0) > ss->timeout = SSL_get_default_timeout(s); > else > ss->timeout = s->session_ctx->session_timeout; > > In most cases SSL_get_default_timeout() calls tls1_default_timeout() (it > can end up somewhere different for certain protocol versions - but all > the different variants are the same!): > > long tls1_default_timeout(void) > { > /* > * 2 hours, the 24 hours mentioned in the TLSv1 spec is way too long > for > * http, the cache would over fill > */ > return (60 * 60 * 2); > } > > 60 * 60 * 2 = 7200 > > > Matt > >
