I'll be speaking at the ToorCon 17 security conference which is taking place at the end of this month, from October 24-25th. My specific talk will be on Saturday at 1pm, and will cover some of the algorithm enhancements that were made to OpenSSL in order to increase the performance of AES-CBC and AES-GCM encryption. These enhancements, function stitching and multibuffer, were mentioned briefly in a white paper on OpenSSL performance that was published here on Developer Zone earlier this year, but I'll go into more technical details on the techniques and what makes them work. These are two very novel approaches to cryptographic optimization, and they have applications beyond just OpenSSL.
I'll also talk about how these enhancements affect real-world, or at least "real-world-like", performance of an SSL/TLS web server, and the methodology used to generate our throughput measurements using freely available tools.
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