[stunnel-users] SSL Session Cache and HTTPS performance

Tue Jul 19 06:26:32 CEST 2005

> I would like to test the performance difference between enabled and 
> disabled SSLCaching. I use a configuration file for Stunnel 4.11 (daemon 
> mode) where I tell it to accept incoming connections on port 444 and 
> direct them to a local web-server on port 80.

Find code like this in the stunnel source:

	    SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(ctx, SSL_SESS_CACHE_BOTH);

            SSL_set_session(c->ssl, ctx->session_cache_head))

and comment any occurances out.  Recompile.  Should do the trick.

> Another question is if anyone of you has made any performance tests 
> regarding STunnel in combination with an Apache HTTP server on the same 
> machine. I'm specially interested in modes to get this combination run 
> faster. And now please do not tell me to use mod_ssl. :)

Benchmark different key lengths and ciphers until you find the one
that's fastest.

And use session caching!

-- 
Brian Hatch                  Whatever hits the
   Systems and                fan will not be
   Security Engineer          evenly distributed.
http://www.ifokr.org/bri/

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