On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:58:20PM -0600, Guan Jun He wrote:
> Hi, Openssl Developpers:
> 
>   We have a platform with cryptographic hardware,and we try to take advantage 
> of the platform's hardware cryptographic features.But openSSL compresses data 
> before the encryption, having a massive performance impact(throughput 
> decrease, 
> CPU load increase) on platforms with cryptographic hardware.
>  
>  There are probably two methords to work-around it:
> * environment variable, the attached patch is written for this methord.
>   it's produced against oepnssl version 0.9.8, it other versions also need 
> the 
>   patch,we are glad to submit it.
> * add an item to configure file openssl.cnf.
> 
> What do you think about this?

Again, I think this should be configured via an option on the SSL_CTX.

Thor
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