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Heads up: Greyhound - Kernel SSL proxy
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:00:07 -0800
From: Krishna Yenduri <bhargava dot yenduri at sun dot com>
To: onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com, on-all at eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Heads up: Greyhound - Kernel SSL proxy
The putback of the Greyhound project (PSARC/2005/625) introduces a kernel
level SSL proxy server in Solaris. The proxy simplifies and significantly
accelerates the SSL/TLS protocol implementation by pushing the
handshake and records processing to the kernel.
The proxy supports the most commonly used cipher suites. Applications
(e.g. web servers) may be enabled to off-load the handling of the
SSL operations with those cipher suites to the proxy, and seamlessly
fall-back to their existing user level SSL library for the others.
Please see http://solsec.sfbay/greyhound for instructions on configuring
a web server to use Greyhound. Comments and questions about the project
may be sent to the Greyhound team's list gh-core at sun dot com.
solaris/kernel_ssl is the Bugster product/category for filing defects or
RFEs
against the project.
The Greyhound team
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