[lug] SSL/https speed

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Wouldn't all of these benchmarks depend on the type of encryption?  RSA,
DSA, 56bit, 128bit, ...  I don't think this all comes down to one
number.  You may need to run some tests yourself.

Ferdinand

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> Yes, that was meant as a comparison.  100 SSL connections, thousands of
> non-SSL connections.
> 
> Sean
> 
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:41:06PM -0600, David Trowbridge wrote:
> >Tux is doing 13000 on normal HTTP connections - it does not support
> >SSL/https yet.
> >
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> >David Trowbridge
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> >
> >"Base 8 is just like base 10 really...if you're missing two fingers"
> >       -Tom Lehrer
> >
> >On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:27:11PM -0600, Kyle Moore wrote:
> >> >Does anyone have any idea or a source for relative speed between http
> >> >and https?
> >>
> >> I believe I've heard that a 700MHz P3 can handle just under 100 SSL
> >> connections per second.  I seem to recall that some monster boxes are doing
> >> something around 4,500 Apache connections per second, with Tux reporting
> >> 13,000.
> >>
> >> Basically, http has to do everything that HTTP does, but it also does a
> >> bunch of math on large numbers for every connection as well.  SSL is MUCH
> >> slower than http.
> >>
> >> Sean
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