Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

[Eric Rescorla]

pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:

> Bodo Moeller <moeller at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
> 
> >Using an explicit state machine helps to get code suitable for multiplexing
> >within a single thread various connections using non-blocking I/O.
> 
> Is there some specific advantage here, or is it an academic exercise?  Some
> quirk of supporting certain types of hardware like nCipher boxes that do async
> crypto/scatter-gather?
I've had to do this on environments where threads weren't a viable
option. See, for instance, my paper from USENIX Security 2002.

-Ekr
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