[TUHS] The most surprising Unix programs

Anthony Martin ality at pbrane.org
Mon Mar 16 12:45:42 AEST 2020


Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> once said:
> Well, to be fair, we did eliminate the trip up to userland and back down
> and did the bulk crypto in the kernel... We did do the session
> negotiation in userland though, but once that was done, the rest was done
> in-line in the kernel...

Plan 9 has had the SSL record layer and bulk crypto
in the kernel for almost 25 years. Just sayin'. ☺

Cheers,
  Anthony


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