James A. Donald: > >> SSL is layered on top of TCP, and then one layers > >> one's actual protocol on top of SSL, with the result > >> that a transaction involves a painfully large number > >> of round trips.
Richard Salz wrote: > Perhaps theoretically painful, but in practice this is > not the case; commerce on the web is the > counter-example. James A. Donald: > The delay is often humanly perceptible. If humanly > perceptible, too much. I respectfully disagree - I'd argue that a short wait is actually more reassuring to the average user (Hey! The System's checking me out!) than an instantaneous connection would be. Adding in a false wait (a nice pop-up, a progress bar and a snake-oily security message) would be even better... Regards, Jim Cheesman --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]