Thanks Victor! Yes the performance is critical. Another thing is, I just checked the PKI handshakes with RC4 and was amazed to see the 75% of gain in performance. Am I loosing something more than DH parameters in handshakes when going with RC4?
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Victor Duchovni < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:28:28PM -0700, Ace wrote: > > > PKI Handshakes are always the cause of worry when it comes to performance > > but now I am facing problems even with the normal encryption. The data > size > > is around 2k. Woud you suggest using RC4-MD5? > > I never suggest optimizing something, until there is clear evidence > that the thing being optimized plays a significant role in the observed > performance. I am skeptical that MD5 vs SHA1 will make a noticeable > difference, so if you want RC4 use RC4-SHA, but only if the performance > advantage over DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA is critical. > > -- > Viktor. > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- I may be miles away... but I am just a email away.... so keep emailing...!!! Cheers, Rajan
