ent the reference count, so that the session will not be implicitly removed by other operations but stays in memory. In order to remove the session <a href="../man3/SSL_SESSION_free.html">SSL_SESSION_free(3)</a> must be explicitly called once to decrement the reference count again.</p>

<p>SSL_SESSION objects keep internal link information about the session cache list, when being inserted into one SSL_CTX object&#39;s session cache. One SSL_SESSION object, regardless of its reference count, must therefore o