This setting belongs to the individual connection, not to a configuration
shared by many connections. (If a default value is desired, that can be handled
by the application code that calls mbedtls_ssl_set_mtu().)
There are at least two ways in which this matters:
- per-connection settings can be adjusted if MTU estimates become available
during the lifetime of the connection
- it is at least conceivable that a server might recognize restricted clients
based on range of IPs and immediately set a lower MTU for them. This is much
easier to do with a per-connection setting than by maintaining multiple
near-duplicated ssl_config objects that differ only by the MTU setting.
This commit adds a public function
`mbedtls_ssl_conf_datagram_packing()`
that allows to allow / forbid the packing of multiple
records within a single datagram.
This commit finally enables datagram packing by modifying the
record preparation function ssl_write_record() to not always
calling mbedtls_ssl_flush_output().
This commit is another step towards supporting the packing of
multiple records within a single datagram.
Previously, the incremental outgoing record sequence number was
statically stored within the record buffer, at its final place
within the record header. This slightly increased efficiency
as it was not necessary to copy the sequence number when writing
outgoing records.
When allowing multiple records within a single datagram, it is
necessary to allow the position of the current record within the
datagram buffer to be flexible; in particular, there is no static
address for the record sequence number field within the record header.
This commit introduces an additional field `cur_out_ctr` within
the main SSL context structure `mbedtls_ssl_context` to keep track
of the outgoing record sequence number independent of the buffer used
for the current record / datagram. Whenever a new record is written,
this sequence number is copied to the the address `out_ctr` of the
sequence number header field within the current outgoing record.
This will allow fragmentation to always happen in the same place, always from
a buffer distinct from ssl->out_msg, and with the same way of resuming after
returning WANT_WRITE
The standard HKDF security guarantees only hold if `mbedtls_hkdf()` is
used or if `mbedtls_hkdf_extract()` and `mbedtls_hkdf_expand()` are
called in succession carefully and an equivalent way.
Making `mbedtls_hkdf_extract()` and `mbedtls_hkdf_expand()` static would
prevent any misuse, but doing so would require the TLS 1.3 stack to
break abstraction and bypass the module API.
To reduce the risk of misuse we add warnings to the function
descriptions.
When MBEDTLS_ARC4_C and MBEDTLS_CIPHER_NULL_CIPHER were disabled, the stream
cipher function wasn't being include in the cipher struct, yet Chacha20 requires
it.
The purpose of the networking module can sometimes be misunderstood. This adds
a definition and explanation of what the networking module is and what it can be
used for.
We don't compile in the assembly code if compiler optimisations are disabled as
the number of registers used in the assembly code doesn't work with the -O0
option. Also anyone select -O0 probably doesn't want to compile in the assembly
code anyway.
Fix Documentation error in `mbedtls_ssl_get_session`.
This function supports deep copying of the session,
and the peer certificate is not lost anymore, Resolves#926
Move definition of `MBEDTLS_CIPHER_MODE_STREAM` to header file
(`mbedtls_cipher_internal.h`), because it is used by more than
one file. Raised by TrinityTonic in #1719
