On Thu, Apr 26, 2012, Jack Bauer wrote:

> We are currently experiencing some scaling problems on our webservers
> (nginx). They are terminating SSL connections and passing the requests
> to backend servers.
> 
> After some testing, it appears that scaling is no problem, when the
> kEDH cipher is disabled by passing !kEDH to openssl.
> 
> Can someone please explain, what disabling kEDH exactly means and tell
> if there are any caveats concerning client/end-point security?
> 

What DH parameters are you using? You can get better performance by tweaking
the parameters.

Steve.
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Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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