[NNTP] Re: Comments on draft-ietf-nntp-tls-nntp-05.txt

[EKR]

Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:

>>>>>> "EKR" == EKR  <ekr at rtfm.com> writes:
>
>  >> Well, nondisclosure limits how much I can say, but it's
>  >> unquestionably true that (a) traffic levels of many gigabits are
>  >> the norm rather than the exception in the commercial Usenet
>  >> provider industry (which is a very significant user of
>  >> authenticated NNTP connections, and more importantly also has a
>  >> major effect on client development) and (b) the CPU cost of
>  >> encrypting all that, purely to protect the password, is not
>  >> something that can simply be absorbed.
>
>  EKR> Yeah, this falls more into the category of assertion than data. 
>
> What sort of data would you like?

Throughput/load measurements on realistic traffic loads with
the SSL/TLS configurations in question. The standard reference
for Web traffic is:

C. Coarfa, P. Druschel, and D. Wallach. Performance Analysis of TLS
Web Servers. In Proceedings of NDSS '02,
2002. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/coarfa02performance.html

-Ekr