RE: [users@httpd] How to benchmark ChaCha20-Poly1305 capable websites using Apache Benchmark (ab) tool?

2017-07-28 Thread Matt Holdsworth
I finally muddled my way through building the latest httpd trunk code (I couldn't work out if/how it's possible to just build ab without the rest of httpd), so now have a version of 'ab' which supports testing of ChaCha20-Poly1305. :) In case it's useful to anybody else, here are the steps I us

RE: [users@httpd] How to benchmark ChaCha20-Poly1305 capable websites using Apache Benchmark (ab) tool?

2017-07-26 Thread Matt Holdsworth
> 1. Looking at http://svn.apache.org/r1757674 (Thu Aug 25 12:53:03 2016 UTC) > and history of > httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/support/ab.c file that was changed in that > revision, > I think your version of AB does not support OpenSSL 1.1.0 at all, as support > for 1.1.0 was added by later revisi

[users@httpd] How to benchmark ChaCha20-Poly1305 capable websites using Apache Benchmark (ab) tool?

2017-07-25 Thread Matt Holdsworth
I'm trying to use 'ab' to do some performance benchmarks of my website after having made some performance tweaks. Specifically, I'd like to test the difference in performance between the following cipher suites - all supported by my website: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SH