I thought this talk might be of interest to Launchpad developers working to improve performance. It's aimed at HTTP sites wanting to add security, but I think much of the information is applicable to an existing TLS site like Launchpad as well.
http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html This is a write up of the talk that I gave at Velocity 2010 last Thursday. This is a joint work of myself, Nagendra Modadugu and Wan-Teh Chang.) [...] If there's one point that we want to communicate to the world, it's that SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more. Ten years ago it might have been true, but it's just not the case any more. You too can afford to enable HTTPS for your users. -- - mdz _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

