This is another awesome article on the topic: http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-https.html http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-m

This is another awesome article on the topic: http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-https.html http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-h... More on the "technical" side (and it's a bit old), but it's still totally worth a read.