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Latency and throughput of HTTPS is much much worse than pure HTTP, the original paper has more details on this.
by gaika 19y ago
Latency and throughput of HTTPS is much much worse than pure HTTP, the original paper has more details on this.
- procrastitron 19y agoThat actually really surprises me. Is this just a limitation of the major implementations, or is there something fundamental about the design that slows it down? (I'm not familiar with the details of the protocol)
- gaika 19y agoProtocol itself is ok, the problem is that it is tunneled inside TCP, so on top of TCP SYN/ACKs you have HTTPs certificate exchange and then cypher negotiation just to establish connection. Once established the cypher becomes another slowdown.
- procrastitron 19y agoThat makes sense. Thanks.
- aflag 19y agoWould it make things unbearable? I've accessed https websites and I didn't even know they were slower up until now. Am I missing something?