Hello. Recently I read an article about securing UDP traffic using DTLS. I'm trying to create a basic server architecture in c++ using OpenSSL but I have not been able to use DTLS like UDP. Does anyone have any experience working with DTLS?

I have seen an example open a new thread per client. The problem with that structure is coordinating all the read buffers. Using a thread per client seems like a lot of overhead compared to UDP with one single receive thread that gets data from all clients.

Just because the example does it, doesn't mean that you have to do it.

You can still use a single input socket (I presume they do that in the example?) and as long as you associate contexts for the OpenSSL library with the correct remote source (using some hash table, typically,) it can all live in the same thread.
Unfortunately, I haven't used OpenSSL DTLS in anger, and don't remember the exact names of the data structures/functions, so I can't contribute more than that.

Thank you, I took your advice and tried to create a single loop but I have ran into problems. SSL_read is blocking. This blocks new handshakes and reads from other clients.

It seems using blocking threads or asynchronous IO both have their own complexities that I will need to solve. I was hoping someone had already ran into these problems and found the path of least resistance. I believe I need to just put in the work and keep trying until I find what works best for my application.