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What_Lies_Bene1
Cirrostratus
Oct 14, 2013This article should tell you all you need to know: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/100/sol13187.html.
"The BIG-IP SSL profiles can use ciphers from two different SSL stacks; the NATIVE stack is built into TMM, and the COMPAT stack is based on the OpenSSL library. The NATIVE stack is an optimized SSL stack which the BIG-IP system can use to leverage hardware acceleration. F5 recommends that you use the NATIVE stack, as it is suitable for most SSL connections."
It looks like you can just use the NATIVE cipher string to avoid using OpenSSL.