Re: Encrypted SMTP (was Re: wish list)

[Ron Arts <raarts@netland.nl>]

Ray Jones wrote:
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> Ron Arts <raarts@netland.nl> writes:
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> > According to my experience with HTTP servers (I am responsible for
> > over a thousand) HTTPS request are at least 10 times as CPU
> > intensive as normal requests.  This is a pretty well known fact
> > among SSL users and experts.
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> I can certainly believe that.  Encryption is a lot more CPU intensive
> than just copying a buffer.  CPU-intensiveness isn't the only limit to
> speed, though.
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> > Tests have shown that webservers that could normally handle tens to
> > hundreds of requests per second bogged down to as low as three per
> > second when everything went through the SSL port.
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> Is this 3 new session-key generations going on per second, or just 3
> pages served per second with previously generated keys?
> 

I found it here
http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?INW19990524S0002

Ron Arts
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