The upcoming pixelserv-tls 2.1.0 brings a few exciting new features. They speed up browsing as well as enhancing a user's capability to inspect potential privacy breach. While this blog post highlights the features, supplemental details are also available as usual in the MAN page. Cache SSL certificates in…
I can't wait but jot down this piece of story. I woke up this morning and found macOS Mail.app failed to login Gmail. I tried re-login a few times. No success and I left it aside. In a cozy afternoon, I decided to revisit the issue. The first thing…
pixelserv-tls v2.1 is imminent for release. I setup a special instance in my home lab and put it under scrutiny of SSL Labs tests. Test version 2.1.0-rc.2 pleasantly scores an overall A. Quite a few other things from the test report worth highlights. v2.1 brings…
This article introduces an optimised build of OpenSSL 1.0.1te for EdgeRouter-X. It is tested in firmware v1.10 and shall work on models sharing the same ER-X platform. Note that this optimised library is not built for Cavium-based EdgeRouters and will not work on those models. Also worth…
This article introduces a Debian package pixelserv-tls for ER-X which as of firmware v1.10.0 runs a variant of Debian Wheezy. ER-X has four logical cores which are a huge advantage. pixelserv-tls can make use of as many cores as you throw at it. I believe the package can…
This is a quick update to the benchmark described in the previous article. The test procedures are revised as below: empty cache and reload each page five times. record DOMContentLoad, Load, and Finish time for each reload. Take the average. repeat for select_timeout equal to 1s, 5s and 10s.…
This article discusses features and performance of pixelserv-tls, version KL. As of this writing a pre-release test version is used for analysis. The original pixelserv handles each request by fork()'ing a new process. It is an expensive operation on both CPU time and memory footprint. With pixelserv-tls version Ke,…