Neil Horman

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Performance: The little sibling of cryptography

"Fast, Cheap, and Correct" in the cryptography world focuses heavily on the "Correct" aspect. Incorrect code is insecure code, and cryptographic software must be secure above all else, or its not doing its job. Of course, while fast is often considered later on the part of developers, users want fast as well. So over the last year, we at OpenSSL made an effort to make later happen today. This talk focuses on some of the performance improvements made to openssl, the aspects of the library which got faster, and by how much, and what the potential impact to users might be.