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Why is the computational and speed overhead sometimes negative for HTTPS?
by graedus 8y ago
Why is the computational and speed overhead sometimes negative for HTTPS?
- hannob 8y agoThere are performance features that are impractical to deploy unencrypted, so browsers only enable them on HTTPS. (Notably: HTTP/2 and Brotli.) There are plenty of middlebox devices on the Internet that will drop your traffic if you send anything HTTP over them that they don't understand. So you're kinda "locked in" in not deploying new protocol features. Encryption provides a way out of this.