[Toybox] [RFC] ktls is in 4.13.

Robert Thompson robertt.thompson at gmail.com
Mon Sep 4 18:22:10 PDT 2017


>From the toybox point of view, wouldn't this introduce direct link
dependency on ssl/tls libraries?

If that's acceptable, the ktls stuff looks like a simple addition (on top
of base in-toybox tls) with potential performance improvements, once the
code settles down.


On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 11:12 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> The kernel just merged "ssl renamed after thread local storage" support:
>
>   vpaper: https://netdevconf.org/1.2/papers/ktls.pdf
>   sample code: https://github.com/ktls/af_ktls
>
> It's basic https plumbing in the kernel, but doesn't do the handshake or
> renegotiation. What I'm wondering is would this be a better thing to try
> to plug into than the openssl command line utility?
>
> Worth bothering with?
>
> Rob
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