3 To help anyone looking at the SSL code, here are a few tips I've found handy.
5 # Building your own NSS
7 In order to use a debugger with the NSS library, it helps to build NSS yourself. Here's how I did it:
10 http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/nss-3.11.4/nss-3.11.4-build.html
12 https://developer.mozilla.org/En/NSS_reference/Building_and_installing_NSS/Build_instructions
14 Then, to build the most recent source tarball:
17 wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_12_RTM/src/nss-3.12-with-nspr-4.7.tar.gz
18 tar -xzvf nss-3.12-with-nspr-4.7.tar.gz
20 cd mozilla/security/nss/
24 Sadly, the latest release, 3.12.2, isn't available as a tarball, so you have to build it from cvs:
29 export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot
31 cvs co -r NSPR_4_7_RTM NSPR
32 cvs co -r NSS_3_12_2_RTM NSS
33 cd mozilla/security/nss/
37 # Linking against your own NSS
39 Sadly, I don't know of a nice way to do this; I always do
41 hammer --verbose net > log 2>&1
43 then grab the line that links my app and put it into a shell script link.sh,
44 and edit it to include the line
46 DIR=$HOME/nss-3.12.2/mozilla/dist/Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_DBG.OBJ/lib
48 and insert a -L$DIR right before the -lnss3.
50 Note that hammer often builds the app in one, deeply buried, place, then copies it into Hammer
51 for ease of use. You'll probably want to make your link.sh do the same thing.
53 Then, after a source code change, do the usual "hammer net" followed by "sh link.sh".
55 Then, to run the resulting app, use a script like
57 # Running against your own NSS
58 Create a script named 'run.sh' like this:
62 DIR=$HOME/nss-3.12.2/mozilla/dist/Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_DBG.OBJ/lib
63 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DIR
67 Then run your app with
74 sh run.sh gdb Hammer/foo
79 There are several flavors of logging you can turn on.
81 * SSLClientSocketNSS can log its state transitions and function calls using base/logging.cc. To enable this, edit net/base/ssl\_client\_socket\_nss.cc and change #if 1 to #if 0. See base/logging.cc for where the output goes (on Linux, it's usually stderr).
83 * HttpNetworkTransaction and friends can log its state transitions using base/trace\_event.cc. To enable this, arrange for your app to call base::TraceLog::StartTracing(). The output goes to a file named trace...pid.log in the same directory as the executable (e.g. Hammer/trace\_15323.log).
85 * NSS itself can log some events. To enable this, set the envirnment variables SSLDEBUGFILE=foo.log SSLTRACE=99 SSLDEBUG=99 before running your app.
89 http://wiki.wireshark.org/SSL describes how to decode SSL traffic.
90 Chromium SSL unit tests that use src/net/base/ssl\_test\_util.cc to
91 set up thir servers always use port 9443 with src/net/data/ssl/certificates/ok\_cert.pem,
92 and port 9666 with src/net/data/ssl/certificates/expired\_cert.pem
93 This makes it easy to configure Wireshark to decode the traffic: do
94 Edit / Preferences / Protocols / SSL, and in the "RSA Keys List" box, enter
96 127.0.0.1,9443,http,<path to ok_cert.pem>;127.0.0.1,9666,http,<path to expired_cert.pem>
100 127.0.0.1,9443,http,/home/dank/chromium/src/net/data/ssl/certificates/ok_cert.pem;127.0.0.1,9666,http,/home/dank/chromium/src/net/data/ssl/certificates/expired_cert.pem
102 Then capture all tcp traffic on interface lo, and run your test.
106 Read https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NSS_Memory_allocation and do
108 export NSS_DISABLE_ARENA_FREE_LIST=1
110 before valgrinding if you want to find where a block was originally
113 If you get unsymbolized entries in NSS backtraces, try setting:
115 export NSS_DISABLE_UNLOAD=1
118 (Note that if you use the Chromium valgrind scripts like tools/valgrind/chrome\_tests.sh or tools/valgrind/valgrind.sh these will both be set automatically.)
122 If you have nonconfidential questions about NSS, check the newsgroup
123 > http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto
124 The NSS maintainer monitors that group and gives good answers.