Provides interface, design details of ngtcp2. Future, will provide easy to use ngtcp2 APIs pre-integrated with various events/ssl libs.

ngtcp2 implementation does not tightly couple with the socket layer nor the SSL implementation. It depends on upper layer to manage the sockets, read/write the sockets on behalf of the ngtcp2. Similarly timers are not directly managed inside ngtcp2. The upper layer (I am calling it APP in the call flows) checks the expiry time from ngtcp2 and starts the timer.

The SSL implementation is also not tightly coupled i.e., the ngtcp2 requires the APP layer to fulfill certain callbacks which in turn could be implemented using any TLS1.3 implementation. The existing example client/server apps in the ngtcp2 use libev for socket management and OpenSSL for TLS1.3 handling.

The advantage with this design is that the app layer is free to choose any event library for sockets, timers etc. The example uses libevent, but libuv can as well be easily plugged in. Similarly the APP controls the TLS1.3 implementation to use and thus could switch the TLS libary in the future.

The ngtcp2 implementation provides QUIC implementation decoupled from any platform libs and thus should be easy to port.

Please note that this is not a rigorous representation i.e., the flow is supposed to give an idea about how ngtcp2 APIs manages handshake, connections and streams.

ngtcp2 client/server examples used. Server UDP port: 12345

QUIC 1-RTT session flow

Above session was resumed using 0RTT flow. QUIC 0-RTT session flow

Certificate and Private key files used from TalkWithTLS. Thanks to Ashok