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posted by takyon on Thursday July 02 2015, @03:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the order-of-magnitude- dept.

Amazon has announced a new TLS implementation. From the ZDnet article:

Rather than try to cover all of SSL/TLS's full range of extensions, s2n, with its mere 6,000 lines of code, focuses only on encryption. This means that Amazon is not trying to replace OpenSSL. Schmidt wrote that "Amazon remains committed to supporting [OpenSSL] through our involvement in the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative."

Instead, s2n replaces the functionality of only one of OpenSSL's two main libraries: Libssl, which implements TLS. There is no s2n equivalent to libcrypto, OpenSSL's general-purpose cryptography library. Thus, s2n can take the place of "libssl," but not "libcrypto."

takyon: For comparison, about 70,000 lines of code in OpenSSL are involved in processing TLS.


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