OpenMLS Performance

In this blog post, I explore how MLS’ aspiration to be scalable manifests itself in OpenMLS. The charter in particular claims the following: Resource requirements have good scaling in the size of the group (preferably sub-linear) While performance can be theoretically analysed for MLS it is also interesting to see whether the performance goals hold up in a real implementation. This of course only looks at a single implementation. Nonetheless, I think that it gives a good impression on the actual performance of MLS implementations. Particularly because OpenMLS at this point is not optimised but rather implements the MLS spec as is. ...

May 18, 2021 · Franziskus Kiefer