Did you really want to discuss your results "ahead of time"? You could easily do it before publishing them. My email address is in the manual of stunnel. I could argue whether an old Ubuntu package is "out of the box"…
Real SSL clients are supposed to use SSL session resumption. Benchmarking with a client that only negotiates new sessions hardly reflects real-life usage.
Did you really want to discuss your results "ahead of time"? You could easily do it before publishing them. My email address is in the manual of stunnel. I could argue whether an old Ubuntu package is "out of the box"…
Real SSL clients are supposed to use SSL session resumption. Benchmarking with a client that only negotiates new sessions hardly reflects real-life usage.