Comment by Dylan16807
12 years ago
SSL itself is a tiny fraction of the CPU load on a normal webserver. The idea that it's expensive has done more harm than many other things.
It wouldn't cost anything except on accelerator boxes.
12 years ago
SSL itself is a tiny fraction of the CPU load on a normal webserver. The idea that it's expensive has done more harm than many other things.
It wouldn't cost anything except on accelerator boxes.
Is it really a tiny load? Have you ever looked at the throughput values quoted for VPN routers that do their encryption in software (not hardware like the expensive Cisco ASAs)? If you compare the non-VPN throughput with the VPN-throughput, the software encryption is massively massively slower, so I would argue that software encryption is not a tiny load on a normal webserver, unless the webserver was not getting any hits...?
yes encryption (and database) is the hot spot when I do load testing, the bit in the middle can be optimized to near nothing.