[lug] SSL/https speed

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Fri Jun 22 12:12:09 MDT 2001


Not only are there cards, there are whole boxes that'll do the SSL
portion of the connection for you and pass standard http to your server.
Search for "SSL Accelerators" on Google...

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:14:48AM -0600, Kyle Moore wrote:
> I have read that there are cards that take the encryption overhead off
> of the system cpu and dramatically speed up the ssl. I don't have any
> experience with these though...might be something to look at for a high
> traffic site that needs ssl...like the one I'll be working on shortly.
> 
> -Kyle Moore
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