TLS termination: stunnel, nginx & stud

Here is the short version: to get better performance on your TLS terminator, use stud on 64-bit system with patch from Émeric Brun for TLS session reuse with some AES cipher suite (128 or 256, does not really matter), without DHE, on as many cores as needed, a key size of 1024 bits unless more is needed. Update (2011-10) I received some constructive comments about these tests. After reading this a

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SSL ターミネーション比較．インフラ向け

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SSLターミネーション比較。ベンチマーク、チューニングやCipher比較も。studが最強らしい