boringssl/ssl/test
Matthew Braithwaite a2dd781884 Defer writing the shim settings.
This is prefactoring for a coming change to the shim that will write
handoff and handback messages (which are serialized SSLConnection
objects) to the transcript.

This breaks the slightly tenuous ordering between the runner and the
shim. Fix the runner to wait until the shim has exited before
appending the transcript.

Change-Id: Iae34d28ec1addfe3ec4f3c77008248fe5530687c
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/27184
Reviewed-by: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com>
Commit-Queue: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com>
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runner Defer writing the shim settings. 2018-05-01 19:49:46 +00:00
async_bio.cc
async_bio.h
bssl_shim.cc Defer writing the shim settings. 2018-05-01 19:49:46 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt
fuzzer_tags.h Share all of fuzz/{client,server}.cc into fuzzer.h. 2017-09-07 22:14:12 +00:00
fuzzer.h Add DTLS fuzzers. 2017-09-07 22:26:50 +00:00
packeted_bio.cc Remove support for blocking DTLS timeout handling. 2017-03-01 19:59:28 +00:00
packeted_bio.h Remove support for blocking DTLS timeout handling. 2017-03-01 19:59:28 +00:00
PORTING.md
README.md
test_config.cc Add an API to disable RSA-PSS for certificates. 2018-04-16 20:02:43 +00:00
test_config.h Add an API to disable RSA-PSS for certificates. 2018-04-16 20:02:43 +00:00

BoringSSL SSL Tests

This directory contains BoringSSL's protocol-level test suite.

Testing a TLS implementation can be difficult. We need to produce invalid but sufficiently correct handshakes to get our implementation close to its edge cases. TLS's cryptographic steps mean we cannot use a transcript and effectively need a TLS implementation on the other end. But we do not wish to litter BoringSSL with options for bugs to test against.

Instead, we use a fork of the Go crypto/tls package, heavily patched with configurable bugs. This code, along with a test suite and harness written in Go, lives in the runner directory. The harness runs BoringSSL via a C/C++ shim binary which lives in this directory. All communication with the shim binary occurs with command-line flags, sockets, and standard I/O.

This strategy also ensures we always test against a second implementation. All features should be implemented twice, once in C for BoringSSL and once in Go for testing. If possible, the Go code should be suitable for potentially upstreaming. However, sometimes test code has different needs. For example, our test DTLS code enforces strict ordering on sequence numbers and has controlled packet drop simulation.

To run the tests manually, run go test from the runner directory. It takes command-line flags found at the top of runner/runner.go. The -help option also works after using go test -c to make a runner.test binary first.

If adding a new test, these files may be a good starting point:

  • runner/runner.go: the test harness and all the individual tests.
  • runner/common.go: contains the Config and ProtocolBugs struct which control the Go TLS implementation's behavior.
  • test_config.h, test_config.cc: the command-line flags which control the shim's behavior.
  • bssl_shim.cc: the shim binary itself.

For porting the test suite to a different implementation see PORTING.md.