Improve manual page re protocols and scalability

Issue:		#42
pull/13/head
Daniel Roethlisberger 10 years ago
parent 769fbd042d
commit edf1dac8fa

@ -274,6 +274,23 @@ SNI DNS lookup):
[\fInat-engine\fP|\fIfwdaddr port\fP]
.ad
.TP
\fBhttps\fP
SSL/TLS interception with HTTP protocol decoding, including the removal of
HPKP, HSTS and Alternate Protocol response headers.
.TP
\fBssl\fP
SSL/TLS interception without any lower level protocol decoding; decrypted
connection content is treated as opaque stream of bytes and not modified.
.TP
\fBhttp\fP
Plain TCP connection without SSL/TLS, with HTTP protocol decoding, including
the removal of HPKP, HSTS and Alternate Protocol response headers.
.TP
\fBtcp\fP
Plain TCP connection without SSL/TLS and without any lower level protocol
decoding; decrypted connection content is treated as opaque stream of bytes
and not modified.
.TP
.I listenaddr port
IPv4 or IPv6 address and port or service name to listen on. This is the
address and port where the NAT engine should redirect connections to.
@ -522,18 +539,19 @@ authorityKeyIdentifier = keyid:always,issuer:always
-subj '/O=SSLsplit Root CA/CN=SSLsplit Root CA/' \\
-set_serial 0 -days 3650\fP
.fi
.SH SCALABILITY
SSLsplit is scalable to a relatively high number of listeners and connections
due to a multithreaded, event based architecture based on libevent, taking
advantage of platform specific select() replacements such as kqueue. The main
thread handles the listeners and signalling, while a number of worker threads
equal to twice the number of CPU cores is used for handling the actual
.SH PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY
SSLsplit is able to handle a relatively high number of listeners and
connections due to a multithreaded, event based architecture based on libevent,
taking advantage of platform specific select() replacements such as kqueue.
The main thread handles the listeners and signalling, while a number of worker
threads equal to twice the number of CPU cores is used for handling the actual
connections in separate event bases, including the CPU-intensive SSL/TLS
handling.
.LP
Care has been taken to choose scalable data structures for caching certificates
and SSL sessions. Logging is implemented in separate disk writer threads to
ensure that socket event handling threads don't have to block on disk I/O.
Care has been taken to choose well-performing data structures for caching
certificates and SSL sessions. Logging is implemented in separate disk writer
threads to ensure that socket event handling threads don't have to block on
disk I/O.
DNS lookups are performed asynchroniously.
SSLsplit uses SSL session caching on both ends to minimize the amount of full
SSL handshakes, but even then, the limiting factor in handling SSL connections

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