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Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL

ISRG has been investing heavily in the Rustls TLS library over the past few years. Our goal is to create a library that is both memory safe and a leader in performance. Back in January of this year we published a post about the start of our performance journey. We've come a long way since then and we're excited to share an update on Rustls performance today. What is Rustls? Rustls is a memory safe TLS implementation with a focus on performance.

It comes with a C API and FIPS support so that we can bring both memory safety and performance to a broad range of existing programs. This is important because OpenSSL and its derivatives, widely used across the Internet, have a long history of memory safety vulnerabilities with more being found this year. Thank you to Sovereign Tech Fund, Alpha-Omega, Google, Fly.io, and Amazon Web Services for their support.

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