Make SSL handshakes much faster

This change boosts SSL handshake performance from 2,627 to ~10,000 per
second which is the same level of performance as NGINX at establishing
secure connections. That's impressive if we consider that redbean is a
forking frontend application server. This was accomplished by:

  1. Enabling either SSL session caching or SSL tickets. We choose to
     use tickets since they reduce network round trips too and that's
     a more important metric than wrk'ing localhost.

  2. Fixing mbedtls_mpi_sub_abs() which is the most frequently called
     function. It's called about 12,000 times during an SSL handshake
     since it's the basis of most arithmetic operations like addition
     and for some strange reason it was designed to make two needless
     copies in addition to calling malloc and free. That's now fixed.

  3. Improving TLS output buffering during the SSL handshake only, so
     that only a single is write and read system call is needed until
     blocking on the ping pong.

redbean will now do a better job wiping sensitive memory from a child
process as soon as it's not needed. The nice thing about fork is it's
much faster than reverse proxying so the goal is to use the different
address spaces along with setuid() to minimize the risk that a server
key will be compromised in the event that application code is hacked.
This commit is contained in:
Justine Tunney 2021-07-11 23:17:47 -07:00
parent 8c4cce043c
commit f3e28aa192
103 changed files with 1310 additions and 1085 deletions

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@ -600,7 +600,7 @@
* Comment this macro to disable storing the peer's certificate
* after the handshake.
*/
/*#define MBEDTLS_SSL_KEEP_PEER_CERTIFICATE*/
#define MBEDTLS_SSL_KEEP_PEER_CERTIFICATE
/**
* \def MBEDTLS_SSL_CBC_RECORD_SPLITTING
@ -772,7 +772,7 @@
*
* Comment this macro to disable support for SSL session tickets
*/
/*#define MBEDTLS_SSL_SESSION_TICKETS*/
#define MBEDTLS_SSL_SESSION_TICKETS
/**
* \def MBEDTLS_SSL_EXPORT_KEYS
@ -1048,9 +1048,9 @@
#define MBEDTLS_SSL_TLS_C
#define MBEDTLS_SSL_CLI_C
#define MBEDTLS_SSL_SRV_C
/*#define MBEDTLS_SSL_CACHE_C*/
#define MBEDTLS_SSL_TICKET_C
#define MBEDTLS_SSL_CACHE_C
/*#define MBEDTLS_SSL_COOKIE_C*/
/*#define MBEDTLS_SSL_TICKET_C*/
/**
* \def MBEDTLS_SSL_MAX_CONTENT_LEN