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author | Nick Hudson <nick.hudson@isode.com> | 2012-02-28 17:14:15 (GMT) |
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committer | Kevin Smith <git@kismith.co.uk> | 2012-03-07 09:31:13 (GMT) |
commit | 0b55e5cf189e61d1dafbc011ee853d74509604d8 (patch) | |
tree | 35143d7474885075655afea73bff1d0d39f0e57f /.gitignore | |
parent | 9adba9899fcf98db402e279970056f7a2ada7915 (diff) | |
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Turn on TLS ability (and fix problems discovered while testing this)
The nascent support for TLS is now enabled by the uncommenting of a
line in "PlatformTLSFactories" which means that Stroke will now try
and negotiate TLS when connecting to a server that offers it.
Note that further changes will be required to allow configuring of
client certificate and trust anchors.
In performing testing, a couple of problems were found and have been
fixed by this patch:
- The "hack" field inside JSSEContext, which keeps track of whether
the fake "<" character used to provoke an SSL handshake has been
sent was mistakenly declared static, which meant that if you tried
using TLS on more than one session, things didn't work
properly. This has been fixed.
- The buffer used for incoming encrypted data for the SSLEngine in
JSSEContext is created with a size that matches "the largest
SSL/TLS packet that is expected". But it turns out not to be big
enough to cope with all the data that the JavaConnection class
might provide when calling "handleDataRead()".
So the "handleDataFromNetwork" method is changed to break this data
into chunks that will fit into the buffer. The same technique is
used in "handleDataFromApplication" for cases where the application
provides more data than is will fit in a buffer.
- All of the "ByteBuffer" values are initialised with a size as
recommended by the Sun documentation, although in some cases it
appears that these sizes may not be enough (you are cautioned to be
able to cope with the buffers overflowing)
So all of the ByteBuffers are able to grow, up to a maximum of ten times
there initial size, using the "enlargeBuffer()" method.
Note that in most cases, I could only provoke buffer overflows in
my tests by deliberately starting off with buffers that are too
small.
- When testing with JRE7, it became apparent that the behaviour of
the SSLEngine and SSLContext classes had changed, which initially
resulted in "hangs" being seen as the SSLEngine did not appear to
decrypt data being fed to it until subsequent SSL messages arrived
and appeared and to prod it into life.
This behaviour is influenced by the version of TLS handshake being
used, which made it awkward to debug, since some versions of TLS handshake
worked fine for JRE6 but not JRE7 and vice versa; also different servers
would negotiate different with different handshakes.
Eventually this turned out to be a pre-existing bug in the initial
JSSEContext implementation: specifically the "unwrapPendingData()"
method had been assuming that a call to SSLEngine.unwrap() would
consume all pending data (which is the case for in all scenarios
using JRE6, and is often, but not always, the case for JRE7).
So the fix for the problem is to loop inside "unwrapPendingData" until
calls to unwrap() don't consume any more data.
- I also added some logging to JSSEContext - warnings when an error
is emitted, and a "fine" message when buffer sizes have to be
increased.
- Also, double-slash comments are replaced by /*..*/ style in JSSEContext
Test-information:
Before this patch, TLS wasn't starting. Now it does.
Before the bug fixes, concurrent TLS connections to more than one
server resulted in "corruption" of the streams, with errors being
generated relating to XML parsing errors at both client/server.
Before the bug fixes, large messages from the server (~36K) would
cause "BufferOverflow" exceptions and connections to drop.
After the bug fixes, these problems are no longer seen.
Before the bug fixes, TLS sessions would sometimes (depending on what
version of TLS the server negotiated, and what version of JRE you were
using) appear to "hang". Now they don't.
I also tested creating artificially small buffers to make sure that
the various "buffer overflow" situations are handled properly. I
wasn't able to provoke all of these problems in a real
configuration, so I suspect that the "enlargeBuffer" stuff may not
actually get used much, but it has been tested.
All tested with JRE6 and JRE7
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