[Cryptography] OpenSSL minimal "safe" configuration?

[Henry Baker]

At 01:35 PM 1/11/2016, Salz, Rich wrote:
>> I noticed that OpenSSL uses only 1 core, even when "no-threads" is *not* specified.
>> 
>> Although thread libraries seem to get loaded, the heavy computation is still
>> only done by one core.
>> 
>> I presume that this is to counter some attack?
>> 
>> Is there a link/reference to this attack?
>
>No, it's because multi-core stuff is not portable.
>
>The whole world is not an x86 :)

Do any of the existing open source tls/ssl implementations use multiple cores?