ietf-nntp Re: WG Review: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (sasl)

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Andrew Gierth said:
>  Rob> I mean, is it really worth the expense of the public key
>  Rob> operation if you're just going to encrypt the 5-10 bytes of the
>  Rob> password?  If it is, its probably worth it to just buy a TLS
>  Rob> accelerator card, encrypt the whole connection, and be done with
>  Rob> it.
> 
> I'm not finding hard info on throughput of accelerators, but sales
> blurbs saying things like "can completely fill a 100Mbps network link"
> tell me that they are not playing in the right league - I wasn't
> kidding about measuring traffic in gigabits.

At least.

And anyone writing "just buy a TLS accelerator card" is also not playing in
the right *game*, let alone league. We're talking big clusters of computers
(and Andrew works with bigger clusters than me). One card won't help.

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