The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Thursday, Debtember 31, 2020

Yet another wrinkle in the TLS library woes

I downloaded and compiled libretls, a libtls for OpenSSL. I also recompiled my Lua wrapper for libtls and reran the profiling tests from the other day.

I can now say for certain that there is no need to profile LibreSSL because the results speak for themselves—an accumulation of 24 CPU seconds using OpenSSL vs. 1 minutes, 24 seconds using LibreSSL. Looking at the results, it makes some sense. The LibreSSL library I'm using the the “portable version” for non-OpenBSD systems, and there's probably little work to making it fast.

So now I have to rethink my using LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER when compiling the Lua module. I will no longer be using the LibreSSL version and I can't exactly rely upon the TLS_API value either … sigh.

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