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The State of SSL Stacks

The State of SSL Stacks

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·May 7, 2025
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2bluesc

Never heard of aws-lc before this, but now I'm looking for an excuse to use it.

kccqzy

I have no idea this happened, but after reading this article my main takeaway was that OpenSSL shot themselves in the foot. Is this a fair assessment? I mean the excessive locking just stands out to be ill-advised for this performance-sensitive piece of code.

edelbitter

> implement sophisticated core-awareness strategies that maximize single-node efficiency by distributing cryptographic workloads across all available CPU cores

LLM slop?

tptacek

Willy Tarreau is the original author of HAProxy.

mplanchard

This whole article reads like it was generated from an LLM prompt yeah