ietf-nntp TLS cipher renegotation to NULL cipher

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Feb 10 13:18:57 PST 2003


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> The text below is taken from an IMAP mailing list thread regarding TLS
> renegotiation and/or DSS in NNTP.  FWIW, I agree with Chris (as I and
> several others have from the beginning).

Okay, that's a fair cop.  Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Has anyone actually benchmarked SSL/TLS with a large news server and
discovered a substantial performance impact?

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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