Articles tagged with “performance”

Performance Improvements via Formally-Verified Cryptography in Firefox

Kevin Jacobs and Benjamin Beurdouche

July 6, 2020

Cryptographic primitives, while extremely complex and difficult to implement, audit, and validate, are critical for security on the web. To ensure that NSS (Network Security Services, the cryptography library behind … Read more

Improving AES-GCM Performance

Franziskus Kiefer

September 29, 2017

AES-GCM is a NIST standardised authenticated encryption algorithm (FIPS 800-38D). Since its standardisation in 2008 its usage increased to a point where it is the prevalent encryption used with TLS. … Read more

A Faster Content Security Policy (CSP)

Christoph Kerschbaumer

September 10, 2014

With the establishment of CSP Level 2, Mozilla shifted gears and reimplemented CSP in C++. This security feature first shipped in Firefox 4 (2011), and until now was implemented in … Read more