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Re: Can anyone think of any reason NOT to use SSL for sockets?

Subject: Re: Can anyone think of any reason NOT to use SSL for sockets?
From: Moises Lejter <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:05:12 -0600
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The rule of thumb I've heard is that you lose a third of your bandwidth to encryption overhead...

Moises

On Nov 25, 2007, at 1:51 AM, bsd5tu1 wrote:

Considering how security is such a threat and concern, why bother using standard sockets as opposed to secure sockets as defined in JSSE? I know it looks [...] like being noticably slower, [...]

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