[106505] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: https
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Thu Jul 31 11:50:22 2008
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:49:53 -0400
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <63ac96a50807251452g5d90b59bgc4f0e9c4414c3850@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Matthew Petach wrote:
> I'm sure when Gmail gets close to the same number of users
> as Yahoo, they will discover how challenging and painful it is
> to support that many simultaneous short-lived SSL connections.
> It's much easier to support CPU intensive tasks like full-time
> SSL when you have a small user base; as that user base
> grows, the cost of providing that service continues to grow,
> often outpacing the revenue benefit it brings.
>
You're aware that certain chips, such as the UltraSparc T1 and T2 chips,
have on-board SSL acceleration functions that impose virtually zero
penalty on SSL encryption (though I suppose that setup/teardown is
handled by the main CPU)?
--Patrick
