Ah I see. I was confused. It didn't occur to me that he or she uses Ruby (in italics) as a catch all for slow application performance, not slow encryption perf

Ah I see. I was confused. It didn't occur to me that he or she uses Ruby (in italics) as a catch all for slow application performance, not slow encryption performance. That said, do people really eschew https because they are that CPU strapped? Bizarre.