Benchmarking OpenSSL on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows

Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by in Servers

Following on from my previous article Benchmarking Linux and FreeBSD, I decided to test the cryptographic speed of various Operating Systems (OS). For this test I used OpenSSL, which is the default cyptographic engine on Linux and FreeBSD. I had to install OpenSSL on Windows. Experiment 1 The versions used were (all 32 bit): FreeBSD […]

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Software Freedom

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by in Open-Source

Sometimes I feel as though our rights are slowly being diminished. People are being sued globally for copyright infringement because content producers seem to be incapable of providing their works in the technological formats and sales channels desired by consumers. These dinosaurs will fight hard to resist any disruptive innovation (as has always been the […]

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