4 ms·
Even if not the CPU cost, I don't think small-town, USA IT wants to deal with incompatibilities between clients when SSL is enforced (ie. no SNI on pre-GB Andro
by aroch 12y ago
Even if not the CPU cost, I don't think small-town, USA IT wants to deal with incompatibilities between clients when SSL is enforced (ie. no SNI on pre-GB Android phones/winXP, only some [weak] ciphers available in IE etc) not necessarily the individual compute increase.
To address what you've said, increasing the energy consumption of every internet connected device in the world will probably have noticeable effects on the aggregate (more power for the server, more power to cool the server, etc.).
- acdha 12y ago“small-town, USA IT” has to outsource as much as possible anyway because their budgets have been cut annually for a long time. Spending an extra $100/year on an SSL certificate is the least of their worries if they're not simply using outside services for as much as possible. > increasing the energy consumption of every internet connected device in the world will probably have noticeable effects on the aggregate How would this compare to the energy used by e.g. a single wasteful banner ad campaign? Do you really think that it makes sense to be concerned with the part which is increasingly executed by optimized hardware?