Re: SSL best option for new deployments

2011-12-13 Thread Brane F. Gračnar
On 12/13/2011 09:02 PM, John Lauro wrote: Been using haproxy for some time… but have not used it with SSL yet. I do need to preserve the IP address of the original client. So either transparent (is that possible when going through stunnel or other and haproxy on the same box), or

RE: SSL best option for new deployments

2011-12-13 Thread David Prothero
best option for new deployments On 12/13/2011 09:02 PM, John Lauro wrote: Been using haproxy for some time… but have not used it with SSL yet. I do need to preserve the IP address of the original client. So either transparent (is that possible when going through stunnel or other and haproxy

Re: SSL best option for new deployments

2011-12-13 Thread Brane F. Gračnar
On 12/13/2011 10:43 PM, David Prothero wrote: I've been using stunnel with the X-Forwarded-For patch. Is stud preferable to stunnel for some reason? Stunnel usually uses thread-per-connection architecture - as you probably know this programming model has serious scaling issues. Stud is

RE: SSL best option for new deployments

2011-12-13 Thread John Lauro
, newer version of stunnel probably perform better. -Original Message- From: Brane F. Gračnar [mailto:brane.grac...@tsmedia.si] Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:21 PM To: David Prothero Cc: John Lauro; haproxy@formilux.org Subject: Re: SSL best option for new deployments On 12/13

Re: SSL best option for new deployments

2011-12-13 Thread Baptiste
...@tsmedia.si] Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:21 PM To: David Prothero Cc: John Lauro; haproxy@formilux.org Subject: Re: SSL best option for new deployments On 12/13/2011 10:43 PM, David Prothero wrote: I've been using stunnel with the X-Forwarded-For patch. Is stud preferable to stunnel

Re: SSL best option for new deployments

2011-12-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO La nuit ayant déjà recouvert d'encre ce jour du mardi 13 décembre 2011, vers 23:43, John Lauro john.la...@covenanteyes.com disait : Found this with google comparing the two (only a few months old): http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-ssl-benchmark.html In summary, performance appears

Re: SSL best option for new deployments

2011-12-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO La nuit ayant déjà recouvert d'encre ce jour du mardi 13 décembre 2011, vers 23:20, Brane F. Gračnar brane.grac...@tsmedia.si disait : It also uses much less memory than stunnel (openssl = 1.x.x). stunnel has also enabled the SSL_MOD_RELEASE_BUFFERS on recent versions (since 4.45). I