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Re:OpenSSL 3.0 by terrywang on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:58AM (#23346690)
- Linux Kernel TLS support

Is this referring to kernel TLS offload (using linux kernel's TLS connection ooffload infrastrucuture)?

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Re:OpenSSL 3.0 by aisio on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:11AM (#23348222)
Yes it supports Kernel TLS offload support. Both in SW mode (where the kernel does the TLS operations) and HW mode https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/tls-offloa...
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Re:OpenSSL 3.0 by shoo on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:22AM (#23347147)
i am unfamiliar with kernel TLS offload [1], but superficially, it looks like that may be supported:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/43a70f02022ebbc29aa7...

`SOL_TLS` referenced here

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/f059e4cc435b7b850cfc...

as defined here:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3c4d7559159bfe1e3b9...

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/tls-offloa...

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