[TLS] TLS Record Size Limitation

2015-12-07 Thread Software Engineer 979
Hello, I'm currently developing an data transfer application using OpenSSL. The application is required to securely transfer large amounts of data over a low latency/high bandwidth network. The data being transferred lives in a 3rd part application that uses 1 MB buffer to transfer data to my appl

Re: [TLS] TLS Record Size Limitation

2015-12-09 Thread Software Engineer 979
Thanks for replies everyone. I also posted the same question the OpenSSL mailing list. One interesting response stated that the size was limited to prevent DOS attacks due to resource exhaustion (in the case that data was being injected). "The peer is required to buffer the entire record before pr