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Re: https

  • From: Patrick Giagnocavo
  • Date: Thu Jul 31 11:50:23 2008
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