A Rust-based TLS library outperformed OpenSSL in almost every categoryA tiny and relatively unknown TLS library written in Rust, an up-and-coming programming language, outperformed the industry-standard OpenSSL in almost every major category. The findings are the result of a recent four-part series of benchmarks [1, 2, 3, 4] carried out by Joseph Birr-Pixton, the developer behind the Rustls library. Benchmark resultsThe findings showed that Rustls was 10% faster whe
