Benchmarking SSL Performance

Recently, there have been some attacks against a website that aimed to steal user identities. In order to protect their users, major website owners had to find a solution. Unfortunately, we know that sometimes, improving security means downgrading performance. SSL/TLS is a popular way to improve data safety when data is exchanged over a network. SSL/TLS encryption is used to crypt any kind of data

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「If we consider that your user would renegociate every 100 request and that the average object size you want to encrypt is 4K, you could get 2300 SSL transaction per second on a small Intel Atom @1.66GHZ!!!!」