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I just wonder how much energy does it take to serve content over TLS/SSL. Maybe that's another factor to consider when building a "low tech" website.
by hgamaral 5y ago
I just wonder how much energy does it take to serve content over TLS/SSL. Maybe that's another factor to consider when building a "low tech" website.
- snemvalts 5y agoThis feels a bit like counting the amount of coffee you drink when calculating carbon footprint, or a bit like code golf aiming for 1KB of executable size. Makes more sense to do the 80/20 approach, 20% of work to get 80% of results sustainability wise and the move on to the next.
- hgamaral 5y agoI'm not so sure. According to [1], for 1MB data transfer over TLS there's up to 15% overhead used for encryption on WLANs. That's 15% more data you have to process, which is not quite the carbon footprint of your coffee drink if you consider how many requests you serve. And that's just data, not to mention all calculations necessary to actually encrypt stuff. [1] - https://users.aalto.fi/~siekkine/pub/siekkinen11tls.pdf https://users.aalto.fi/~siekkine/pub/siekkinen11tls.pdf