Slides from Todd Ouska's presentation on Secure Memcache at OSCON 2010. To learn more about secure memcache or the CyaSSL embedded SSL library, visit www.yassl.com.

1. Securing memcache or,
Tales from Encryption

2. What's memcache?

3. Who’s big idea?

4. Why secure memcache?
• SASL authenticates
• yaSSL also encrypts

5. Who cares?
• Policy enforcement
• Sensitive Data
• Masking Data behind firewall

6. The Cloud Cares

7. How do I use it?
-T

8. When is it available?
• Beta now

9. How it works
N Clients N Servers
memcache client memcached
Tcp/ip Encrypted via streaming cipher
CyaSSL CyaSSL
Tcp/IP Tcp/IP

10. What's the Cost?

11. Database Performance

12. memcache Performance

13. AES-256 Performance

14. Stream RC4 Performance

15. HC-128 Performance

16. MD5 HC-128 Performance

17. Future Performance Directions
AES-NI
Hardware offloading

18. Alice
Bob

20. Thanks!
Todd Ouska
todd@yassl.com
www.yassl.com
Open Source Embedded SSL Libraries