nginx and ephemeral Diffie-Hellman keys

Jauder Ho lists at ruby-forum.com
Sat Jun 14 01:24:04 MSD 2008


Igor Sysoev wrote:

> 
> Yes, nginx allows to reuse sessions.
> However, you should use cache shared across workers:
> http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpSslModule#ssl_session_cache

Ah yes. I did not see that parameter previously. Enabled..

>> The other test case would be of premature close (if client closes 
>> connection without sending alert), session must be abandoned and not 
>> reused.
> 
> No, nginx nevertheless allows to reuse these sessions,
> otherwise all MSIE connections will require SSL handshake.

I have not looked closely at the code but do you differentiate between 
SSL and non SSL sessions? That could be one way of figuring which 
session to dump.

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