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Does SSL incur a performance hit?

16-08-2000 04:51PM

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JohnBoy

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Should only usrname/password type data be encrypted or is it ok to encrypt an entire site using SSL?

John Lanigan
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#2 17-08-2000 09:24AM

ButcherOfNog

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SSL does have a performance hit (depending on encryption level) on the server side, as the server has to encrypt/decrypt all traffic to the secure site. a very rough rule of thumb is to double your processing power

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#3 17-08-2000 11:41AM

spod

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if it's a big issue you might be interested in having a look at http://www.tandem.com/

compaq have someform of ssl accelerator cards which do the crypto in hardware..

dunno much about them, I just browsed across the url last night after reading a query about the units on a mailing list.

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