TLS/SSL Cache Automatic Purge

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Mon Apr 11 13:31:34 UTC 2016


Hello!

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:23:02PM +0200, B.R. wrote:

[...]

> On a side-note, by default nginx does not store session parameters as it
> prefers tickets
> <http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_ssl_module.html#ssl_session_tickets>,
> supported since v1.5.9, over sessions ID.

Session tickets supported as long as OpenSSL version used supports 
them, that is, with OpenSSL 0.9.8f or later.

In nginx 1.5.9 the "ssl_session_tickets" directive was added, 
which makes it possible to disable session tickets when needed.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/



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