o Minor bugfixes:
- Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
- server. It's important for clients to remain hard to distinguish
- from regular firefox connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on
- Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
+ server. This keeps clients harder to distinguish from regular firefox
+ connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
/* Disable TLS tickets if they're supported. We never want to use them;
* using them can make our perfect forward secrecy a little worse, *and*
* create an opportunity to fingerprint us (since it's unusual to use them
- * with TLS sessions turned off). Clients need to advertise support for
- * them, though to avoid a TLS distinguishability vector.
+ * with TLS sessions turned off).
+ *
+ * In 0.2.4, clients advertise support for them, though to avoid a TLS
+ * distinguishability vector. This can give us worse PFS, though, if we
+ * get a server that doesn't set SSL_OP_NO_TICKET. With luck, there will
+ * be few such servers by the time 0.2.4 is more stable.
*/
#ifdef SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
if (! is_client) {