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That may have been true 10 years ago, but the overhead of SSL for CPU is almost nothing, and only a few ms of latency. Web applications are mostly IO and memory
by psadauskas 16y ago
That may have been true 10 years ago, but the overhead of SSL for CPU is almost nothing, and only a few ms of latency. Web applications are mostly IO and memory bound, anyways. We should be using SSL all the time, by default. There's no reason not to, at this point, aside from certificate authorities.