I agree the whitewashing is annoying. One correction: the 'miniscule, but non-zero' computational power for TLS connections, in particular the handshake, is act

I agree the whitewashing is annoying. One correction: the 'miniscule, but non-zero' computational power for TLS connections, in particular the handshake, is actually quite significant. (like 0.4s of CPU time in my tests). So the whitewashing problem may be worse than you think!