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Because it's slower, more compute intensive and unnecessary?
by pbreit 12y ago
Because it's slower, more compute intensive and unnecessary?
- marssaxman 12y agoRoutinely using SSL even when it's "unnecessary" makes life harder on the NSA, which is all the justification I need.
- toast0 12y agoNSA can figure out the traffic from donate.libreoffice.org (or wherever; I can't see where the downloads are coming from right now because their website isn't loading for me) is not worth of decrypting based on the hostname passed in the clear via SNI. Unless libreoffice makes a habit of also hosting interesting content on their site too.
- arthurfm 12y agoAccording to Google [1][2], the overhead is negligible. [1] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h... [2] http://blog.codinghorror.com/should-all-web-traffic-be-encrypted/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/should-all-web-traffic-be-encry...