python - Pass connected SSL Socket to another Process

Question

I am struggling to find a mechanism to send a request to the target server and when the socket has data to be read, pass the socket to another process for getting the data out. I came so far using epoll on Linux, to implement it to the point that i do the handshake, i send the request and the request arrives, then i pass the socket fd to another process for futher handling, i explicitly save the SSL Session using PEM_write_bio_SSL_SESSION and then read it using PEM_read_bio_SSL_SESSION and add it to the context but i can not read the ssl socket in another process because i get either Internal error or Handshake failure.

I've read this article but still couldn't find any mechanism to work it out. I know this is because openssl is application-level library but there has to be way because Apache already is doing this .

At least, if its not possible, is there a way to decrypt the data from socket (which i can read normally) using Master Key from openssl's session ?

Answer 1

The only way you can do this is by cloning the full user space part of the SSL socket, which is spread over multiple internal data structures. Since you don't have access to all the structures from python you can only do this by cloning the process, i.e. use fork.

Note that once you have forked the process you should only continue to work with the SSL socket in one of the processes, i.e. it is not possible to fork, do some work in the child and then do some work in the parent process. This is not possible because once you are dealing with the socket the SSL state gets changed, but only in one of the processes. In the other process the state gets out of sync and any attempts to use this wrong state later will cause strange errors.