Opened 7 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#1388 new enhancement

Implement TLS Dynamic Record Sizing (CloudFlare patch ready)

Reported by: Eihrister@… Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: other Version: 1.13.x
Keywords: tls Cc:
uname -a: Linux 5ed26871fece 4.4.0-96-generic #119-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 12 14:59:54 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
nginx -V: nginx version: nginx/1.13.5
built by gcc 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)
built with OpenSSL 1.1.1-dev xx XXX xxxx
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp --user=www-data --group=www-data --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed' --with-openssl=/usr/src/openssl-tls1.3-draft-18 --with-openssl-opt='no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-zlib no-ssl3 enable-tls1 enable-tls1_1 enable-tls1_2 enable-tls1_3 enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128' --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_xslt_module=dynamic --with-http_image_filter_module=dynamic --with-http_geoip_module=dynamic --with-threads --with-stream --with-stream_ssl_module --with-stream_ssl_preread_module --with-stream_realip_module --with-stream_geoip_module=dynamic --with-http_slice_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-compat --with-file-aio --with-http_v2_module --with-http_spdy_module --add-module=/usr/src/nginx-njs/nginx

Description

Hi,

Instead of iterating everything CloudFlare has already written, their blog post is here:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/optimizing-tls-over-tcp-to-reduce-latency/

And the patch is here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudflare/sslconfig/master/patches/nginx__1.11.5_dynamic_tls_records.patch

In short, it enables nginx to, instead of having just a static ssl_buffer_size, have the initial requests fit in the least amount of TCP-segments possible, and size it up to 3x segment size, on to the full ssl_buffer_size later. This can greatly speed up TLS.

Daniël "FinalX" Mostertman

Change History (1)

comment:1 by maxim, 7 years ago

Milestone: 1.13

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