Tencent Architect

Jun 30, 2017 · Information Security

Asynchronous RSA Proxy Computation and Performance Optimization for SSL Handshake

The article presents a comprehensive engineering solution that separates RSA operations, employs parallel and asynchronous processing, modifies OpenSSL and Nginx event handling, and adds symmetric‑encryption optimizations to boost SSL/TLS handshake throughput by over threefold while reducing CPU load.