Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:58:20PM -0600, Guan Jun He wrote:
> > Hi, Openssl Developpers:
> > 
> >   We have a platform with cryptographic hardware,and we try to take 
> > advantage 
> > of the platform's hardware cryptographic features.But openSSL compresses 
> > data 
> > before the encryption, having a massive performance impact(throughput 
> > decrease, 
> > CPU load increase) on platforms with cryptographic hardware.
> >  
> >  There are probably two methords to work-around it:
> > * environment variable, the attached patch is written for this methord.
> >   it's produced against oepnssl version 0.9.8, it other versions also need 
> > the 
> >   patch,we are glad to submit it.
> > * add an item to configure file openssl.cnf.
> > 
> > What do you think about this?
> 
> Again, I think this should be configured via an option on the SSL_CTX.

There is no way to set the default context options via config file
though, right? So every application would need to be patched.

cu
Ludwig

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