by Baptiste Assmann | Oct 14, 2015 | HAPEE, HAProxy
[ANNOUNCE] HAProxy 1.6.0 released Yesterday, 13th of October, Willy has announced the release of HAProxy 1.6.0, after 16 months of development! First good news is that release cycle goes a bit faster and we aim to carry on making it as fast. A total of 1156 commits...
by Nenad Merdanovic | Jul 15, 2015 | benchmark, HAPEE, HAProxy, performance, security, ssl
ECC and RSA certificates and HTTPS To keep this practical, we will not go into theory of ECC or RSA certificates. Let’s just mention that ECC certificates can provide as much security as RSA with much lower key size, meaning much lower computation requirements...
by Baptiste Assmann | Jun 9, 2015 | HAPEE, HAProxy, layer7
SSL/TLS and HSTS SSL everywhere is on its way. Unfortunately, many applications were written for HTTP only and switching to HTTPs is not an easy and straight forward path. Read more here about impact of TLS offloading (when a third party tool perform TLS in front of...
by Baptiste Assmann | Oct 15, 2014 | HAProxy, security, ssl
SSLv3 poodle vulnerability Yesterday, Google security researchers have disclosed a new vulnerability on SSL protocol. Fortunately, this vulnerability is only on an old version of the SSL protocol: SSLv3 (15 years old protocol). An attacker can force a browser to...
by Baptiste Assmann | Dec 17, 2013 | architecture, HAProxy, layer7, ssl
Introduction to SPDY / HTTP-bis SPDY is a protocol designed by google which aims to fix HTTP/1.1 protocol weaknesses and to adapt this 14 years old protocol to today’s internet devices and requirements. Back in 1999, when HTTP/1.1 was designed, there was no...
