On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 04:12:56PM +0000, Salz, Rich wrote: > Sessions are the server holds the state and the client sends a session-id. The client always holds (the client side of the) state. What varies is how much (server) state is also stored at the server. > Tickets are the client holds the state and sends it to the server. With tickets the client also stores the server state, encrypted, so that the server need only hold a decryption key, which is the same for multiple client sessions. -- Viktor.