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Making SSL Fast, Overclocking mod_ssl
- datums 16y agoAnyone use ssl acceleration cards these days?
- jrockway 16y agoNew Intel processors have hardware-accelerated AES built in. Apparently an i5 with this does about 2G/s AES encryption, while my i7 without this does about 80M/s AES encryption. Yeah.
- nphase 16y agoWhy do we keep hearing about mod_ssl overclocking? Have any of you overclocked your Cassandra lately? what about your Apache? Does MySQL have a multiplier that can be tweaked with? Or voltage settings on the BIOS? "Yeah dude, I water cool my SSL. Look at those dark blue LEDs glow."
- jrockway 16y agoYour comment would be funny if the author didn't explain this right in the first sentence: At Velocity, I saw Adam Langley give a great presentation entitled Overclocking SSL. As you can see, he named his article "Overclocking mod_ssl" because the other guy named his talk "Overclocking SSL". Reading comprehension. A good thing to get before writing.
- jrockway 16y agoThe RC4 choice seems fishy, especially considering how easy it is to get hardware-accelerated AES these days. If you want to use weak encryption, why use encryption at all?