Use of OpenSSL as JCE security provider if available on system

[Simone Bordet]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 3:43 PM Sean Mullan <sean.mullan at oracle.com> wrote:
> But, if we want to explore this further, I think it first makes sense to
> take a step back and focus more on what benefits an OpenSSL provider or
> "native bridge" would provide.

Benchmarked 3x-10x performance improvements.
https://nbsoftsolutions.com/blog/dropwizard-1-3-upcoming-tls-improvements

I guess the memory allocation/footprint has similar improvements, with
the JDK insisting at requiring ~17 KiB buffers to read HTTP requests
in the order of <1 KiB.

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Simone Bordet
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