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The expensive bit of SSL is not the symmetric crypto once established, it's the public key crypto when setting up the SSL session. However, 600 quid buys you a
by bensummers 17y ago
The expensive bit of SSL is not the symmetric crypto once established, it's the public key crypto when setting up the SSL session.
However, 600 quid buys you a PCI-E accelerator card which offloads those calculations from the CPU, so you don't even have to get a fancy load balancer.