Upgrading in-tree OpenSSL to 0.9.9-current
Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]>
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I am about to check in some rather large changes to the OpenSSL "cryptodev" engine (which we maintain locally in our tree) and to opencrypto itself to increase performance when there are many concurrent requests. It will be quite wasteful to do this with the current in-tree OpenSSL as engine performance is hamstrung by: 1) The fact that we build OpenSSL without threading support, and the engine interface is blocking. 2) The lack of HMAC support in the 0.9.8 engine interface, which results in every HMAC operation being decomposed into a series of MAC operations, roughly halving HMAC performance and causing MAC accelleration to be completely disabled in the engine. Unfortunately I can't get any good sense of when OpenSSL 0.9.9 will actually be released, but the head of the OpenSSL tree seems quite stable right now and I'd like to check it in and do my best to keep it up to date as it changes to become 0.9.9. This will yield several other performance wins including an approximate doubling of RSA performance on a number of architectures (better than that with certain CPUs on i386, in fact) and many bugfixes to lesser-used but useful features such as DTLS. I figure, it's NetBSD-current, so including OpenSSL-current is not such a big deal. And I will try to keep up to date as there are major changes in OpenSSL through 0.9.9 -- if in fact there are any. Opinions? -- Thor Lancelot Simon [email protected] "The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky