RE: Turning off compression and encryption

Where is 'eNULL' defined?  I could not find the header file
that contains it.

                 Tak

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Hatch [mailto:bri@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:37 PM
To: Wong, Tak
Cc: stunnel-users@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Turning off compression and encryption




> I just want to evaluate the overhead incurred by compression and
encryption
> for certain applications.

Set your cipher to 'eNULL' in Stunnel to use no encryption
inside the connection.

There will still be overhead (there is still an SSL handshake,
etc) but it'll be the best you can do - once it starts talking,
it uses no encryption.

The best overhead comparison would be to test against an
rinetd-style forward - that way you'd still have a daemon
that's shuttling packets, since the stunnel daemons still
need to shuttle packets.

If you wanted to compare stunnel to plain vanilla tcp
connections, then, uh, just create plain vanilla tcp
connections...



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