ietf-nntp TLS cipher renegotation to NULL cipher

[Ken Murchison]

Andrew Gierth wrote:
> 
> As I've repeatedly stated, there is no direct comparison (for me)
> between the ongoing encryption cost and much of the cost of startup
> (or all of the cost of a SASL mechanism like the one Chris Newman
> proposed), because the latter can be farmed out to separate machines
> and kept away from the high-bandwidth data paths. Session encryption
> (or compression for that matter) on the other hand, increases the
> overhead right where I can least afford it.


OK, point taken.  So is it fair to say that even if it were technically
possible to process encrypted/compressed data at the required
bandwidths, that it is far more desirable to reserve any/all available
resource bandwidth for processing just raw data?

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