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+ngtcp2
+======
+
+"Call it TCP/2. One More Time."
+
+ngtcp2 project is an effort to implement `RFC9000
+<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000>`_ QUIC protocol.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+`Online documentation <https://nghttp2.org/ngtcp2/>`_ is available.
+
+Public test server
+------------------
+
+The following endpoints are available to try out ngtcp2
+implementation:
+
+- https://nghttp2.org:4433
+- https://nghttp2.org:4434 (requires address validation token)
+- https://nghttp2.org (powered by `nghttpx
+ <https://nghttp2.org/documentation/nghttpx.1.html>`_)
+
+ This endpoints sends Alt-Svc header field to clients if it is
+ accessed via HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2 to tell them that HTTP/3 is
+ available at UDP 443.
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+The libngtcp2 C library itself does not depend on any external
+libraries. The example client, and server are written in C++20, and
+should compile with the modern C++ compilers (e.g., clang >= 11.0, or
+gcc >= 11.0).
+
+The following packages are required to configure the build system:
+
+- pkg-config >= 0.20
+- autoconf
+- automake
+- autotools-dev
+- libtool
+
+libngtcp2 uses cunit for its unit test frame work:
+
+- cunit >= 2.1
+
+To build sources under the examples directory, libev and nghttp3 are
+required:
+
+- libev
+- `nghttp3 <https://github.com/ngtcp2/nghttp3>`_ for HTTP/3
+
+ngtcp2 crypto helper library, and client and server under examples
+directory require at least one of the following TLS backends:
+
+- `OpenSSL with QUIC support
+ <https://github.com/quictls/openssl/tree/OpenSSL_1_1_1s+quic>`_
+- GnuTLS >= 3.7.2
+- BoringSSL (commit 31bad2514d21f6207f3925ba56754611c462a873)
+- Picotls (commit 5e01b2b94dc77c500ed4fc0eaa77bd0cbe8e9274)
+- wolfSSL >= 5.5.0
+
+Build from git
+--------------
+
+.. code-block:: text
+
+ $ git clone --depth 1 -b OpenSSL_1_1_1s+quic https://github.com/quictls/openssl
+ $ cd openssl
+ $ # For Linux
+ $ ./config enable-tls1_3 --prefix=$PWD/build
+ $ make -j$(nproc)
+ $ make install_sw
+ $ cd ..
+ $ git clone https://github.com/ngtcp2/nghttp3
+ $ cd nghttp3
+ $ autoreconf -i
+ $ ./configure --prefix=$PWD/build --enable-lib-only
+ $ make -j$(nproc) check
+ $ make install
+ $ cd ..
+ $ git clone https://github.com/ngtcp2/ngtcp2
+ $ cd ngtcp2
+ $ autoreconf -i
+ $ # For Mac users who have installed libev with MacPorts, append
+ $ # ',-L/opt/local/lib' to LDFLAGS, and also pass
+ $ # CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include" to ./configure.
+ $ # For OpenSSL >= v3.0.0, replace "openssl/build/lib" with
+ $ # "openssl/build/lib64".
+ $ ./configure PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PWD/../openssl/build/lib/pkgconfig:$PWD/../nghttp3/build/lib/pkgconfig LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,$PWD/../openssl/build/lib"
+ $ make -j$(nproc) check
+
+Client/Server
+-------------
+
+After successful build, the client and server executable should be
+found under examples directory. They talk HTTP/3.
+
+Client
+~~~~~~
+
+.. code-block:: text
+
+ $ examples/client [OPTIONS] <HOST> <PORT> [<URI>...]
+
+The notable options are:
+
+- ``-d``, ``--data=<PATH>``: Read data from <PATH> and send it to a
+ peer.
+
+Server
+~~~~~~
+
+.. code-block:: text
+
+ $ examples/server [OPTIONS] <ADDR> <PORT> <PRIVATE_KEY_FILE> <CERTIFICATE_FILE>
+
+The notable options are:
+
+- ``-V``, ``--validate-addr``: Enforce stateless address validation.
+
+H09client/H09server
+-------------------
+
+There are h09client and h09server which speak HTTP/0.9. They are
+written just for `quic-interop-runner
+<https://github.com/marten-seemann/quic-interop-runner>`_. They share
+the basic functionalities with HTTP/3 client and server but have less
+functions (e.g., h09client does not have a capability to send request
+body, and h09server does not understand numeric request path, like
+/1000).
+
+Resumption and 0-RTT
+--------------------
+
+In order to resume a session, a session ticket, and a transport
+parameters must be fetched from server. First, run examples/client
+with --session-file, and --tp-file options which specify a path to
+session ticket, and transport parameter files respectively to save
+them locally.
+
+Once these files are available, run examples/client with the same
+arguments again. You will see that session is resumed in your log if
+resumption succeeds. Resuming session makes server's first Handshake
+packet pretty small because it does not send its certificates.
+
+To send 0-RTT data, after making sure that resumption works, use -d
+option to specify a file which contains data to send.
+
+Token (Not something included in Retry packet)
+----------------------------------------------
+
+QUIC server might send a token to client after connection has been
+established. Client can send this token in subsequent connection to
+the server. Server verifies the token and if it succeeds, the address
+validation completes and lifts some restrictions on server which might
+speed up transfer. In order to save and/or load a token,
+use --token-file option of examples/client. The given file is
+overwritten if it already exists when storing a token.
+
+Crypto helper library
+---------------------
+
+In order to make TLS stack integration less painful, we provide a
+crypto helper library which offers the basic crypto operations.
+
+The header file exists under crypto/includes/ngtcp2 directory.
+
+Each library file is built for a particular TLS backend. The
+available crypto helper libraries are:
+
+- libngtcp2_crypto_openssl: Use OpenSSL as TLS backend
+- libngtcp2_crypto_gnutls: Use GnuTLS as TLS backend
+- libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl: Use BoringSSL as TLS backend
+- libngtcp2_crypto_picotls: Use Picotls as TLS backend
+- libngtcp2_crypto_wolfssl: Use wolfSSL as TLS backend
+
+Because BoringSSL and Picotls are an unversioned product, we only
+tested their particular revision. See Requirements section above.
+
+We use Picotls with OpenSSL as crypto backend. It does not work with
+OpenSSL >= 3.0.0.
+
+The examples directory contains client and server that are linked to
+those crypto helper libraries and TLS backends. They are only built
+if their corresponding crypto helper library is built:
+
+- client: OpenSSL client
+- server: OpenSSL server
+- gtlsclient: GnuTLS client
+- gtlsserver: GnuTLS server
+- bsslclient: BoringSSL client
+- bsslserver: BoringSSL server
+- ptlsclient: Picotls client
+- ptlsserver: Picotls server
+- wsslclient: wolfSSL client
+- wsslserver: wolfSSL server
+
+QUIC protocol extensions
+-------------------------
+
+The library implements the following QUIC protocol extensions:
+
+- `An Unreliable Datagram Extension to QUIC
+ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9221>`_
+- `Greasing the QUIC Bit
+ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9287>`_
+- `Compatible Version Negotiation for QUIC
+ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-quic-version-negotiation>`_
+- `QUIC Version 2
+ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-quic-v2>`_
+
+Configuring Wireshark for QUIC
+------------------------------
+
+`Wireshark <https://www.wireshark.org/download.html>`_ can be configured to
+analyze QUIC traffic using the following steps:
+
+1. Set *SSLKEYLOGFILE* environment variable:
+
+ .. code-block:: text
+
+ $ export SSLKEYLOGFILE=quic_keylog_file
+
+2. Set the port that QUIC uses
+
+ Go to *Preferences->Protocols->QUIC* and set the port the program
+ listens to. In the case of the example application this would be
+ the port specified on the command line.
+
+3. Set Pre-Master-Secret logfile
+
+ Go to *Preferences->Protocols->TLS* and set the *Pre-Master-Secret
+ log file* to the same value that was specified for *SSLKEYLOGFILE*.
+
+4. Choose the correct network interface for capturing
+
+ Make sure you choose the correct network interface for
+ capturing. For example, if using localhost choose the *loopback*
+ network interface on macos.
+
+5. Create a filter
+
+ Create A filter for the udp.port and set the port to the port the
+ application is listening to. For example:
+
+ .. code-block:: text
+
+ udp.port == 7777
+
+License
+-------
+
+The MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2016 ngtcp2 contributors