Speaker
Dr
Jens Jensen
(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Description
The most commonly deployed library for handling Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is OpenSSL. The library is used by the client to
negotiate connections to the server. It also offers features for caching parts of
the information that is required, thus speeding up the process and the cost of
renegotiation. Those features are generally not used fully.
This paper presents results of performance tests, comparing the effects of caching
information on the client side. Since OpenSSL and libraries built on OpenSSL (e.g.
Globus GT2) are ubiquitous, this work will be of interest to anyone.
Primary authors
Dr
Jens Jensen
(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Dr
Owen Synge
(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
