On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:35 PM, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>wrote: > Hello Doug, everybody, > > > On 2012/07/18 7:11, Doug Beaver wrote: > > * Symmetric crypto costs are not much higher; I think Akamai quoted >> 10-20% >> in their response. I think the costs aren't a big deal for major >> sites; >> > > Just a quick question: I think if we could shave off 10-20% of the > bandwidth with some new technique, we'd all go for it. > Symmetric crypto (RC4) is super super cheap - a couple of XORs - definitely not 10-20% of CPU. I'd like to see that measured again before taking action upon it. Obviously, if you use expensive crypto (presumably because you want it), some algorithms take more CPU mike > > So why are we okay with 10-20% more processing costs for everybody, but > not with 10-20% more bandwidth? What's different between processing costs > and bandwidth? > > Regards, Martin. > >
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