- From: John Stracke <francis@ecal.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 17:39:49 -0400
- To: IETF HTTP List <http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Julien Pierre wrote: > You may not be aware of that fact, but in a typical secure web server today, the > overhead of doing encryption represents about 90% of CPU cycles spent. This means > a web server is an order of magnitude slower if it has to server secure > connections vs non-secure. > > In turn, your proposal would result in an average tenfold increase in the > hardware requirement for servers, as well as waste of energy to power all those > CPUs, all for no good reason at all. Or the alternative would be a tenfold > increase in average web server latency, given no hardware upgrade. Just because a client always asks to upgrade doesn't mean the server has to obey. -- /==============================================================\ |John Stracke | http://www.ecal.com |My opinions are my own.| |Chief Scientist |=============================================| |eCal Corp. |"HTTP is what happens in the absence of good | |francis@ecal.com|design." -- Keith Moore | \==============================================================/
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