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Cost of servers to handle millions of TLS connection initialisations and HTTPS stream decryptions, versus simple plain-text streaming...
by grkvlt 8y ago
Cost of servers to handle millions of TLS connection initialisations and HTTPS stream decryptions, versus simple plain-text streaming...
- movedx 8y agoTLS isn't the only option, though. You could use TLS on setup to share a pre-computed secret between the device and the remote server, then bin the TLS connection. After that, encrypt and forward over HTTP. Laziness isn't an excuse.
- grkvlt 8y agoFYI, the mechanism you describe is (essentially) how TLS works...