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Rust-Written Rustls Now Reportedly Outperforming OpenSSL & BoringSSL


Rustls was initially talked up as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees

Rustls was initially talked up as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees. But now besides the talked up advantages due to being written in Rust, it has reached the point of reportedly being faster than both OpenSSL and BoringSSL. MemorySafety.org is reporting today that this Rust TLS library is now said to outperform OpenSSL and BoringSSL with tests on an Intel Xeon server.

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