On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 09:16:39AM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> 
> The nice thing about this is that it means support for the secure DNS
> actually reduces the load on the server. Instead of making at least
> two separate queries (A, AAAA) there is a single query. Since the
> crypto overhead is negligible (its all symmetric key), this is almost
> certainly a net win as most servers are I/O and transaction bound
> rather than CPU bound.

There's also another factor to consider: Memory use. Specifically,
how much memory "sessions" that aren't currently being prcessed,
but which need to be able to bring to service in 0 RTT use.

I have no idea how DTLS would fare here...

Also, agreed that DTLS is a serious mess (and I think it is going to get
even worse).


-Ilari

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