Add TLS session resumption via SSLSessionCache - #789
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Such claims would ideally be supported by benchmarks. Could you try to create some? |
That's the goal, but you're right, I don't have any tests to prove that, removed this claim from the PR description. If I manage to create proper benchmarks I will update on that |
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We could, if it helps, only support this for TLS 1.3. |
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@dkropachev @Lorak-mmk I pushed changes with improvement from older Dmitry's PR, will update PR description soon |
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I rechecked the TLS session-resumption path against the current branch. The ssl_options configuration still builds a fresh SSLContext per Connection, and a cached stdlib session from the previous connection is incompatible with that new context. I reproduced the failure locally on Python 3.10.12; the session restore path raises ValueError: Session refers to a different SSLContext. Since the new code only catches AttributeError and ssl.SSLError, reconnects fail instead of falling back to a full handshake, and the regression is enabled by default because Cluster auto-creates SSLSessionCache for ssl_options.
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Two blocking issues from local validation:
- Twisted caches a TLS session even after hostname verification has already failed, which lets an untrusted peer populate the resumption cache.
SSLSessionCacheacceptsmax_size <= 0and then crashes on the first insert (KeyErrorfrompopitem()on an emptyOrderedDict).
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| transport.failVerification(Failure(ConnectionException("Hostname verification failed", self.endpoint))) | ||
| # Store TLS session after successful handshake (PyOpenSSL) | ||
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failVerification() should short-circuit this callback. As written, a hostname mismatch still falls through and caches the just-negotiated session, so an untrusted peer can seed the resumption cache. I reproduced this locally with a mocked _SSLCreator: failVerification was called and the session still landed in SSLSessionCache.
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SSLSessionCache(max_size=0) currently crashes on the first insert: len(self._sessions) >= self._max_size is already true for an empty cache, so popitem(last=False) raises KeyError. Since this is now a public tuning knob, please validate max_size > 0 (and probably ttl > 0) or define zero as a disabled cache, and cover it with a unit test.
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Two correctness issues need attention before this lands: the PyOpenSSL TLS 1.3 cache point is too early to capture the resumable session, and the cache can evict a live entry while expired ones remain resident.
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cassandra/cluster.py:1565
- The PR description promises automatic cache creation when either
ssl_contextorssl_optionsis set, but this branch deliberately disables it forssl_options-only clusters (and the new unit test assertsNone). Please either implement the documentedssl_optionsbehavior or update the PR description so users and reviewers are not given a contradictory API contract.
# Auto-create a session cache when TLS is enabled via ssl_context,
# unless the caller explicitly passed ssl_session_cache (including None
# to opt out). The legacy ssl_options-only path is excluded because it
# builds a fresh SSLContext per connection, making session reuse
| # info_callback reads the cache from the connection (not the creator); | ||
| # mirror clientConnectionForTLS() here. | ||
| connection._cassandra_ssl_session_cache = ssl_session_cache | ||
| transport = Mock() | ||
| connection.get_app_data.return_value = transport | ||
| connection._cassandra_endpoint = endpoint |
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- The PR summary says automatic cache creation applies when either
ssl_contextorssl_optionsis set, but this implementation (and its new test) intentionally excludes the legacyssl_optionspath. Please update the PR description to state that automatic resumption isssl_context-only, or implement the promised legacy behavior, so the documented activation semantics are unambiguous.
if ssl_context is not None and self._connection_class_supports_tls_resumption():
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- The PR description says a cache is auto-created when either
ssl_contextorssl_optionsis set, but this branch intentionally creates one only forssl_context; the added test and public docstring likewise state that legacyssl_optionsis unsupported. Please update the PR description to match the implemented contract (or implement the promised legacy behavior).
if ssl_session_cache is _NOT_SET:
if ssl_context is not None and self._connection_class_supports_tls_resumption():
self.ssl_session_cache = SSLSessionCache()
else:
self.ssl_session_cache = None
| if key in self._sessions: | ||
| self._sessions[key] = _SessionCacheEntry(session, current_time) | ||
| self._sessions.move_to_end(key) | ||
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cassandra/io/eventletreactor.py:190
get_session()can still return a non-resumable TLS 1.3 session here—the docstring already notes that non-Nonedoes not prove a NewSessionTicket arrived. Ready/AuthSuccess is not a protocol timing guarantee, and setting_tls_session_cachedpermanently suppresses refresh when a later ticket arrives. Keep refreshing TLS 1.3 sessions on later reads or otherwise detect ticket arrival before setting the guard.
session = self._socket.get_session()
if session is not None:
self._ssl_session_cache.set(
self._ssl_session_cache_key(), session)
self._tls_session_cached = True
cassandra/io/twistedreactor.py:370
- A non-
NonepyOpenSSL session does not establish that the TLS 1.3 NewSessionTicket has arrived. If it arrives after Ready/AuthSuccess, this caches a ticketless session and sets both guards, preventing any later refresh. Keep refreshing TLS 1.3 sessions after later reads or otherwise wait for post-handshake ticket processing before setting the guards.
session = ssl_conn.get_session()
if session is not None:
self._ssl_session_cache.set(
self.endpoint.tls_session_cache_key, session)
self._tls_session_cached = True
cassandra/cluster.py:1572
- The PR description says a cache is auto-created for
ssl_contextorssl_options, but this condition—and the new unit test—explicitly excludes thessl_options-only path. The code rationale about per-connection contexts makes the exclusion intentional, so update the PR description to avoid promising unsupported behavior.
if ssl_session_cache is _NOT_SET:
if ssl_context is not None and self._connection_class_supports_tls_resumption():
self.ssl_session_cache = SSLSessionCache()
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cassandra/io/eventletreactor.py-53-55 (1)
53-55: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDocument the public capability flags.
Both files introduce
supports_tls_session_resumptionwithout an attribute or class-docstring entry.
cassandra/io/eventletreactor.py#L53-L55: document the flag inEventletConnection.cassandra/io/twistedreactor.py#L188-L190: document the flag inTwistedConnection.As per coding guidelines: “Provide docstrings for public items introduced by the patch.”
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SSLSessionCache.max_size.
max_sizeis a public property introduced by this patch. Add a docstring. As per coding guidelines, “Provide docstrings for public items introduced by the patch.”🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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936-940: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDocument all unsupported reactors.
Twisted and Eventlet also disable TLS session resumption. The integration test skips both reactors. State this with asyncio in the public
ssl_session_cachedocumentation.As per coding guidelines, “Provide docstrings for public items introduced by the patch.”
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In `@cassandra/cluster.py`:
- Around line 1552-1559: The SSL session-cache setup in Cluster should treat
connection classes without supports_tls_session_resumption as unsupported
instead of raising AttributeError. Update the resumable calculation to use a
False default via getattr, and add a regression test covering Cluster
construction with ssl_context and a custom connection_class lacking that
attribute.
In `@cassandra/connection.py`:
- Around line 831-838: Update the cache class __init__ validation for max_size
to reject non-integer values, including nan, infinity, and fractions, while
retaining the existing requirement that integer capacities be at least 1. Add
coverage for these invalid inputs.
In `@tests/integration/standard/test_tls_resumption.py`:
- Around line 111-124: Update the setup flow around use_singledc,
set_configuration_options, and start_cluster_wait_for_up to register cleanup
before stopping the shared CCM cluster, or restore the cluster in an exception
handler, so setup failures leave the cluster restored for teardown_module.
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In `@cassandra/cluster.py`:
- Around line 936-940: Update the public ssl_session_cache documentation to
state that TLS session resumption is unavailable with the asyncio, Twisted, and
Eventlet reactors, while retaining the existing limitations for ssl_options-only
configuration.
In `@cassandra/connection.py`:
- Around line 842-844: Add a concise docstring to the public
SSLSessionCache.max_size property, documenting that it returns the configured
maximum cache size while preserving the existing getter behavior.
In `@cassandra/io/eventletreactor.py`:
- Around line 53-55: Document the public supports_tls_session_resumption
capability in EventletConnection and TwistedConnection with appropriate
attribute or class-docstring entries, describing that session resumption is
unsupported; update both cassandra/io/eventletreactor.py lines 53-55 and
cassandra/io/twistedreactor.py lines 188-190.
In `@tests/integration/standard/test_tls_resumption.py`:
- Around line 103-105: Update the ImportError handler in the
certificate-generation setup to raise unittest.SkipTest from None, suppressing
the handled exception context while preserving the existing skip message.
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121-121: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winSuppress the intentional BLE001 violation.
Ruff reports BLE001 for this broad catch. Add a targeted
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TLS clients can skip the expensive part of a handshake by replaying a session established earlier with the same peer (RFC 5077 tickets for TLS 1.2, RFC 8446 PSKs for TLS 1.3), but OpenSSL never does this on its own: the client has to hold on to the session and offer it explicitly on the next connection. Add the storage half of that: a bounded, thread-safe LRU of TLS sessions keyed by TLS peer identity, plus an EndPoint.tls_session_cache_key property that produces the key. A cached session is not consumed by being used -- one session can be replayed by any number of concurrent connections -- so get() leaves the entry in place and each successful handshake stores a fresh session back over it. SNI endpoints add the server name to their key, since they all share a proxy address and port but are distinct TLS peers. Client-routes endpoints key on the node's host_id rather than the proxy address they happen to resolve to at the moment. Nothing uses the cache yet. Refs DRIVER-113
Offer the cached session for the endpoint before the handshake, and store the negotiated session once the connection is up, so that the next connection to the same node -- in particular the burst of per-shard connections a pool opens at once -- can skip the certificate exchange and signature of a full handshake. The session is stored from the ReadyMessage / AuthSuccessMessage handlers rather than right after the handshake. A TLS 1.3 server sends its NewSessionTicket as a post-handshake message, so a session read straight after connect() carries no ticket and would not resume; by the time the CQL handshake has completed the ticket has been read off the socket. Storing is idempotent, so nothing needs to track whether it already happened, and every failure in this path is logged and dropped: resumption is an optimisation, and both call sites are wrapped in @defunct_on_error, where a raised exception would kill a healthy connection. The two stdlib-ssl accessors are separated from the policy so that reactors using pyOpenSSL can override just those. Connections whose SSLContext is derived from ssl_options do not participate, because a session cannot be replayed onto a different context and each of those connections builds its own. The asyncio reactor opts out entirely: its handshake happens inside loop.create_connection(), with no point at which a session could be restored. Refs DRIVER-113
Create an SSLSessionCache per Cluster whenever TLS is configured through ssl_context, and hand it to every connection the cluster opens, so that resumption is on by default with no configuration. Pass ssl_session_cache=None to turn it off, or an instance of your own to size it or share it between clusters. No cache is created where resumption cannot work: the deprecated ssl_options-only path, whose per-connection SSLContexts sessions cannot be replayed onto, and reactors that report they cannot restore a session before the handshake. Mark the two pyOpenSSL reactors as such for now -- the session accessors in Connection are the stdlib ssl ones, so Twisted and Eventlet need their own before they can take part. Refs DRIVER-113
Stand up a TLS server on loopback and connect to it with the driver's own socket setup, so the restore-before-handshake and store-after-startup paths run for real and the result is read back the way OpenSSL reports it, through SSLSocket.session_reused. Covers TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. Two of these pin down behaviour that is easy to regress: that four connections opened at once all resume from the single cached session -- the per-shard burst DRIVER-113 is about -- and that on TLS 1.3 nothing is cached until the server's NewSessionTicket has actually been read off the socket. Refs DRIVER-113
Restart the cluster with client encryption on, warm a session cache with one cluster, then hand it to a second one and require every connection it opens to have resumed -- which is the question only a real server can answer: whether it accepts one session offered concurrently by the whole batch of per-shard connections. Follows the reconfigure-and-remove pattern the other modules here use for cluster-level options, and generates the server certificate with cryptography so the test does not depend on an openssl binary. Refs DRIVER-113
Scylla only issues session tickets when enable_session_tickets is set in client_encryption_options, and that is off by default -- without it the cache stays empty and every connection performs a full handshake, with no indication of why. Refs DRIVER-113
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What and why
A shard-aware driver opens one TLS connection per shard to every node, and each one currently
pays for a full handshake — certificate exchange plus a signature, which is the expensive part,
especially with certificate authentication. TLS lets a client skip that by replaying a session
established earlier with the same peer (RFC 5077 tickets for TLS 1.2, RFC 8446 PSKs for
TLS 1.3), but OpenSSL never does this on its own: the client has to hold on to the session and
offer it explicitly on the next connection. Neither the stdlib
sslmodule nor pyOpenSSLexposes
SSL_CTX_sess_set_new_cb, so there is no way around doing it by hand.This adds that: one
SSLSessionCacheperCluster, offered to every connection before itshandshake and refreshed after. On by default whenever
ssl_contextis set.Design notes
get()leaves the entry in place, andeach successful handshake stores a fresh session over it. Measured: one session is accepted by
four concurrent connections on TLS 1.2 and 1.3, stdlib and pyOpenSSL, and against real Scylla.
Treating tickets as single-use (removing on
get()) would mean only the first connection of aper-shard burst resumes — precisely the case this ticket is about. RFC 8446's "SHOULD NOT
reuse" concerns 0-RTT replay and tracking; the driver sends no early data.
the handshake. A TLS 1.3 server sends its NewSessionTicket as a post-handshake message;
confirmed against Scylla that
has_ticketisFalseimmediately afterconnect()andTrueafter the first CQL exchange. Storing is idempotent, so nothing needs to track whether it
already happened, and every failure in this path is logged and dropped — both call sites are
wrapped in
@defunct_on_error, where a raised exception would kill a healthy connection overan optimisation.
SSLContextis part of the cache key. A session cannot be replayed onto a differentcontext — the stdlib rejects it with
ValueError: Session refers to a different SSLContext.That is also why the deprecated
ssl_options-only path does not participate: each of thoseconnections builds its own context.
costs one full handshake, which is the fallback anyway.
_get_resumable_tls_session/_set_tls_session) so areactor not using the stdlib
sslmodule overrides only those.Not covered
loop.create_connection(..., ssl=...), which offersno point at which a session could be restored.
AsyncioConnectiondeclaressupports_tls_session_resumption = Falseand no cache is created for it.the same flag for now; the overrides are a handful of lines each, but they belong on top of
the
fix-empty-ssl-options-reactorswork, which rewrites the exact functions the hooks gointo and adds
cassandra/tls.py.Fixes: https://scylladb.atlassian.net/browse/DRIVER-165
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