On 30 January 2008 17:01, Jim Cheesman wrote: > 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.
I also disagree. It's not like anyone says to themselves "Hey, this website is taking me several seconds to access - I'll spend a couple of hours physically going to the shop instead". It's economics again: what amount of time or money constitutes "too much" depends what the alternative choices are. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]