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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:17:18 +0530
From:      Ravichandra <mynidiravichandra@gmail.com>
To:        Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Support of TLS processing in kernel
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Hi Ben,
  I have looked at this paper. I couldn't find any patch or support being
added to FreeBSD kernel. Do you know if this implementation is done?

Thanks
Ravichandra

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 at 7:03 pm, Ravichandra <mynidiravichandra@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>   Recently some work is done by people at facebook about TLS processing in
>> kernel.
>> It is called as kernel TLS by them. A kernel patch for the same is
>> submitted on
>> linux kernel. I am trying to see something similar can be done for FreeBSD
>> too. I see
>> that stream parsing(strparsing module) support which is leveraged by this
>> kernel TLS
>> module is present in linux kernel and not in FreeBSD. This stream parsing
>> module
>> helps the kernel to custom parse the TCP data according to a application
>> layer protocol
>> requirement. Is there a way that helps to achieve the same in FreeBSD?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ravichandra
>
>
> Netflix have previously done TLS in the FreeBSD kernel.
>
> You can see their paper on it here:
>
> https://people.freebsd.org/~rrs/asiabsd_tls_improved.pdf
>
> Regards,
> Ben
>
>> --
>
> --
> From: Benjamin Woods
> woodsb02@gmail.com
>



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