Mark Constable wrote:
> On Thursday 03 January 2008 22:00:15 Jay Lee wrote:
> 
>> [...] Last I heard, GnuTLS is significantly slower at
>> encryption than OpenSSL.

I haven't been able to find a recent benchmark, despite the following assertion:
"GnuTLS has been benchmarked against OpenSSL and GnuTLS is significantly faster"
http://www.inspircd.org/wiki/Modules/ssl_gnutls#OpenSSL_vs._GnuTLS

On the opposite, ftp transfer performance has been reported to perform like
openssl:gnutls = 7:1, back in 2005
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01487.html

A comparison of features is in
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/comparison.html

> I have used the SSL ports 465, 993 and 995 for years but
> I still have no idea what, where and how TLS fits into the
> picture.

TLS is the alive encryption standard that SSL was. TLS proposes new features,
such as the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension, that enables "virtual"
secure servers
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4366#section-3.1
(See it at work on a web server at https://sni.velox.ch/ and following links)
Any forecast on when will SNI show up on mail servers?

The port numbers mentioned above are summarized in a short table here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_client#Port_numbers















































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