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"On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10 KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network ov
by mborch 11y ago
"On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10 KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead. Many people believe that SSL/TLS takes a lot of CPU time and we hope the preceding numbers will help to dispel that." - Adam Langley, Google.
- slasaus 11y agoI assume your point is about the first sentence of the article "This library was born out of a need to set up a secure channel over a TCP/IP network without the overhead of TLS.", but I interpreted this not in terms of performance, but in terms of lines of source code. OpenSSL in particular is pretty bloated [1]. [1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/openbsd-forks-prunes-fixes-openssl/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/openbsd-forks-prunes-fixes-open...