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Re: hardware crypto and SSL?
From: Michael Sierchio (kudzu
tenebras.com)
Date: Wed Oct 22 2003 - 09:19:01 CDT
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Bill Swingle wrote:
> When you say that they help quite a bit, do you mean for http+SSL or
> some other application?
It depends on the traffic profile -- it significantly reduces the
overhead of session establishment, because that's where pubkey
calculations occur.
> What I'm getting at is this: can anyone actually confirm that using
> hardware crypto can increase http+SSL speeds? I've yet to find any
> mention of it on the web.
For a first estimate, look at the claims of the manufacturers ;-)
(nCipher, Hifn, etc.)
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