According to Google that's not true. "In order to do this we had to deploy no additional machines and no special hardware. On our production front-end machines

According to Google that's not true. "In order to do this we had to deploy no additional machines and no special hardware. On our production front-end machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead. Many people believe that SSL takes a lot of CPU time and we hope the above numbers (public for the first time) will help to dispel that." https://www.verisign.com.au/ssl/ssl-information-center/ssl-resources/whitepaper-protect-sidejacking/index.html https://www.verisign.com.au/ssl/ssl-information-center/ssl-r...