if the proxy is another host, I'd probably loose too much bandwith On 12/03/2015 07:03 PM, Michael Wojcik wrote: >> From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-bounces at openssl.org] On Behalf >> Of Ron Croonenberg >> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 18:35 >> To: openssl-users at openssl.org >> Subject: Re: [openssl-users] explicitly including other ciphers. >> >> The network is isolated from the outside worl, BUT we still need >> authentication because different users are using it. >> >> So what I preferably want is sort of a set up where, >> authentication is done the "standard way" and after that just use the >> https connection without the overhead of actually encrypting anything. >> (and the lesss modifications and recompiling the better) > > So rather than connecting directly to Apache, how about connecting to a TLS proxy like stunnel, which would then connect to Apache over vanilla HTTP. Configure Apache to only bind to loopback addresses (127/8 and/or ::1), so no one can bypass the proxy. > > That's assuming stunnel doesn't also play silly buggers with the cipher suite list. >
