varnish with ssl

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Apr 7 23:24:22 CEST 2010


In message <4BBCF598.8020201 at stillbilde.net>, "Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)"
 writes:

>> 2. I have looked at the OpenSSL source code, I think it is a catastroph=
>e
>>    waiting to happen.  In fact, the only thing that prevents attackers
>>    from exploiting problems more actively, is that the source code is
>>    fundamentally unreadable and impenetrable.
>
>You mean to tell me they didn't read style(9)?

It is not so much the fact that they certainly didn't read style(9),
as the fact that openssl started out as a researchers tool to play
with crypto algorithms, and got a facelift and was suddenly everybodys
crypto implementation by default.

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