Introducing Stud (open source secure gateway)

This is an evented proxy around OpenSSL's async interface. It has a totally reasonably ring buffer library it uses to buffer the data it's proxying, and virtually no other logic. It's so simple it doesn't really even present many obvious opportunities for security bugs.

My only complaint is that Jamie didn't tap us to look at it too. I feel slighted!

Apart from that, this is great stuff. I have clients that can use it immediately. Thanks!

FWIW, Jamie asked me to audit an earlier version of this code. I haven't looked at the version he released, but the version I saw looked secure to me (subject to the assumption that OpenSSL bugs aren't exploitable, at least).

tl;dr version: https://github.com/bumptech/stud

So at first I thought this was for people who don't want to use something like nginx. But then I read "it's designed to be paired with an intelligent backend like haproxy or nginx." If I'm already using nginx, why wouldn't I just have it do SSL?

Oops, that was stupid, I somehow made it the github page without reading the actual blog post. nm.

Is this the same idea as stunnel, but meant to scale to more connections?

Seriously awesome name.

Why a proprietary protocol?