Several limitations still apply:
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 is the only supported cipher suite
- Some tests are broken due to a failing assertion regarding bytestring
- No newly written tests for decryption (the patch was tested extensively for our paper)
- Several small open technical questions marked with FIXME
- Architecture in the ssl module might not be optimal
The Zeek code base has very inconsistent #includes. Many sources
included a few headers, and those headers included other headers, and
in the end, nearly everything is included everywhere, so missing
#includes were never noticed. Another side effect was a lot of header
bloat which slows down the build.
First step to fix it: in each source file, its own header should be
included first to verify that each header's includes are correct, and
none is missing.
After adding the missing #includes, I replaced lots of #includes
inside headers with class forward declarations. In most headers,
object pointers are never referenced, so declaring the function
prototypes with forward-declared classes is just fine.
This patch speeds up the build by 19%, because each compilation unit
gets smaller. Here are the "time" numbers for a fresh build (with a
warm page cache but without ccache):
Before this patch:
3144.94user 161.63system 3:02.87elapsed 1808%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2168608maxresident)k
760inputs+12008400outputs (1511major+57747204minor)pagefaults 0swaps
After this patch:
2565.17user 141.83system 2:25.46elapsed 1860%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1489076maxresident)k
72576inputs+9130920outputs (1667major+49400430minor)pagefaults 0swaps
This does not yet work for certificates, because this requires some
changing the ASN.1 structure before validation (we need to extract the
tbscert and remove the SCT extension before).
API will change in the future.
