Secure socket layer (SSL) load generation with handshake replay

摘要

A software method is disclosed for generating a test load of secure socket layer (SSL) transactions on a server. The method uses a recording phase and a testing phase. During the recording phase, a client initiates an SSL handshake protocol with the server, randomly generates a session key, uses the server's public key certificate to encrypt the session key, sends the session key to the server, and records the session key and an encrypted version of the session key. During the testing phase, the client initiates multiple SSL test transactions. During each test transaction, the client suggests as the session key the same session key that was recorded during the recording phase, rather than generating and encrypting a new session key for each transaction. The client sends the session key to the server for each of the test transactions, and the server decrypts the session key.