Re: questions that came up while thinking about using TLS (EDH) and/or DH

[Joseph Oreste Bruni]

I put together a multi-way messaging system supporting over 2000 simultaneous persistent connections. During my initial design, I was concerned that the encryption would become an issue, especially with that many connections. So, we purchased some pretty burly hardware to support the application ( Dual 2.0 GHz Xserve G5 ). It turns out that the encryption has almost no impact on performance and that machine spends most of its time at 95% idle.

:)


On May 14, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Kyle Hamilton wrote:

Most of the time
you'll find the bottlenecks aren't in the SSL/TLS layer at all.

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