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<h4 class="subsection">6.1.1 General idea</h4>
<p>A brief description of how <acronym>GnuTLS</acronym> sessions operate is shown
at <a href="#fig_002dgnutls_002ddesign">Figure 6.1</a>. This section will become more clear when it
is completely read.
As shown in the figure, there is a read-only global state that is
initialized once by the global initialization function. This global
structure, among others, contains the memory allocation functions
used, structures needed for the <acronym>ASN.1</acronym> parser and depending
on the system’s CPU, pointers to hardware accelerated encryption functions. This
structure is never modified by any <acronym>GnuTLS</acronym> function, except
for the deinitialization function which frees all allocated memory
and must be called after the program has permanently
finished using <acronym>GnuTLS</acronym>.
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<div class="float-caption"><p><strong>Figure 6.1: </strong>High level design of GnuTLS.</p></div></div>
<p>The credentials structures are used by the authentication methods, such
as certificate authentication. They store certificates, privates keys,
and other information that is needed to prove the identity to the peer,
and/or verify the indentity of the peer. The information stored in
the credentials structures is initialized once and then can be
shared by many <acronym>TLS</acronym> sessions.
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<p>A <acronym>GnuTLS</acronym> session contains all the required state and
information to handle one secure connection. The session communicates with the
peers using the provided functions of the transport layer.
Every session has a unique session ID shared with the peer.
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<p>Since TLS sessions can be resumed, servers need a
database back-end to hold the session’s parameters. Every
<acronym>GnuTLS</acronym> session after a successful handshake calls the
appropriate back-end function (see <a href="Resuming-Sessions.html#resume">resume</a>)
to store the newly negotiated session. The session
database is examined by the server just after having received the
client hello<a name="DOCF14" href="#FOOT14"><sup>14</sup></a>,
and if the session ID sent by the client, matches a stored session,
the stored session will be retrieved, and the new session will be a
resumed one, and will share the same session ID with the previous one.
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<h3><a name="FOOT14" href="#DOCF14">(14)</a></h3>
<p>The first message in a <acronym>TLS</acronym> handshake</p>
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