Re: SSL encryption patch.

Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000, Benno Rice wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've written a patch against squid 2.4-DEVEL2 that allows Squid to do SSL
> > encryption.
> >
> > Why, you ask?
> >
> > For http acceleration mode, mainly. We're using squid as a caching
> > accelerator for some work we're doing, where we wanted to be able to
> > offload the SSL encryption.
> >
> > This required some messing about with some of the guts of squid. The
> > main change I made is that I added a read_method and a write_method
> > field to the fde struct, and changed all calls to read() and write() to
> > calls to those methods. Then I overrode the methods for the SSL case.
> >
> > The patch is available at:
> > http://netizen.com.au/~benno/squid-ssl-patch.tar.gz
> >
> > It requires OpenSSL 0.9.4 or later to build.
> >
> > All comments, criticisms and the like appreciated.
>
> It looks neat. Has anyone else played with this?

I've been meaning to, especially since I know Benno (he's on stage near the
end of the 'Bigger is Better' Great Debate, btw, Adrian. Not to be missed).

Too short on time, lately. I've got some time scheduled to look it over some
more than I have.

D
Received on Mon Apr 10 2000 - 07:39:07 MDT