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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: Rick Genter <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:00:06 -0800
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On Nov 25, 2007, at 12:05 AM, Moises Lejter wrote:

The rule of thumb I've heard is that you lose a third of your bandwidth to encryption overhead...

Another reason is CPU performance: strong encryption is computationally expensive. In my experience there is significant cost to initially establishing the connection using SSL (several hundred milliseconds on a typical desktop-class machine). -- Rick Genter email@hidden

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	>Can anyone think of any reason NOT to use SSL for sockets? (From: bsd5tu1 <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Can anyone think of any reason NOT to use SSL for sockets? (From: Moises Lejter <email@hidden>)

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