Hi Igor.

I found the solution....

First the benchmark compiled against openssl-0.9.8k

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Server Software: nginx/0.6.38
Server Hostname: 192.168.1.97
Server Port: 443
SSL/TLS Protocol: [b]TLSv1/SSLv3,AES256-SHA,1024,256[/b]

Document Path: /index.php
Document Length: 4 bytes

Concurrency Level: 50
Time taken for tests: 3.881 seconds
Complete requests: 5000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 1105000 bytes
HTML transferred: 20000 bytes
[b][u]Requests per second: 1288.48 [#/sec] (mean)[/u][/b]
Time per request: 38.806 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.776 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 278.08 [Kbytes/sec] received
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Server Software: nginx/0.7.61
Server Hostname: 192.168.1.97
Server Port: 443
SSL/TLS Protocol: [b]TLSv1/SSLv3,DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA,1024,256[/b]

Document Path: /index.php
Document Length: 4 bytes

Concurrency Level: 50
Time taken for tests: 28.557 seconds
Complete requests: 5000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 1106326 bytes
HTML transferred: 20024 bytes
[b][u]Requests per second: 175.09 [#/sec] (mean)[/u][/b]
Time per request: 285.575 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 5.711 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 37.83 [Kbytes/sec] received
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when i configure the stable version 0.7.61 with

[b]ssl_ciphers AES256-SHA:1024:256:!ADH;[/b]

i got almost the same performance...

Server Software: nginx/0.7.61
Server Hostname: 192.168.1.97
Server Port: 443
SSL/TLS Protocol: [b]TLSv1/SSLv3,AES256-SHA,1024,256[/b]

Document Path: /index.php
Document Length: 4 bytes

Concurrency Level: 50
Time taken for tests: 3.892 seconds
Complete requests: 5000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 1105000 bytes
HTML transferred: 20000 bytes
[b][u]Requests per second: 1284.75 [#/sec] (mean)[/u][/b]
Time per request: 38.918 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.778 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 277.27 [Kbytes/sec] received

PS! i got at least 60% more performance from openssl-0.9.8b to openssl-0.9.8k worth to mention...

Thx for a great product....

/Michael