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For SSL, aren't the individual packets encrypted with a symmetric cypher e.g. AES, RC4, 3DES, etc?
by lmz 16y ago
For SSL, aren't the individual packets encrypted with a symmetric cypher e.g. AES, RC4, 3DES, etc?
- caf 16y agoYes, the data stream is encrypted using a symmetric cipher, as the linked article says. The overhead of this is trivial. It's the key exchange at the start of a session that requires the server to perform expensive RSA operations, which is why session caching helps.