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You really think that the simple act of encrypting and decrypting the traffic of web requests is the heavy part?
by francislavoie 5y ago
You really think that the simple act of encrypting and decrypting the traffic of web requests is the heavy part?
- bullen 5y agoI know it is, because I made my own HTTP server from scratch.
- francislavoie 5y agoIf your site is pure static files, sure, it's added overhead. But if you're doing anything dynamic on the server, connecting to a database etc, then HTTPS is a tiny, tiny percentage of the work being done by the hardware. CPUs are very well optimized for these tasks these days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set.
- bullen 5y agoImagine all the energy wasted making those instruction sets, hardcoded crypto silicon and that part of the CPU... the power that part of the CPU wastes while not in use. For eternity, or atleast until the CPU breaks. You just made the situation worse for your own arguments it seems!
- tedunangst 5y agoYou can actually pinpoint exactly where the argument goes from not great to super dumb.