On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:43:01 -0800
Joe Touch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sam Hartman wrote:
> ...
> > Yes, Steve almost certanily did slow down any heavy CPU use during
> > the time when he was doing the backup.
> >
> > Our point--Steve, Steve and I--is that for a lot of uses and a lot
> > of users, no one cares.
>
> Perhaps that's why everyone is using security. We don't have a
> problem then.
>
I didn't say that; I said that performance generally isn't the issue.
Often, there's a *perception* of a performance issue, because once
there was. The bigger problem, in my opinion, is usability. *Lots* of
people use SSL, because they don't have to do anything. SSL as used in
https has lots of problems I won't go into here, but it is excellent
protection against passive eavesdroppers.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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