Thanks for answers, testing here showed no real difference for me with a
pounder script running so I'm opting for the 1024bit key and we will see how
it goes.
Thanks.
on 3/23/01 1:40 PM, Rich Salz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The 'best practices' standard *for everyone who doesn't have to support
> older browsers that only did 512bit keys* is a 1024 bit key.
>
> RSA operations are only done at the start of an SSL session, not at each
> HTTP(S) connection. (Because public key is so expensive, it's typically
> only used to exchange a bulk symmetric key for application data
> encrypt/decrypt.)
> /r$
>
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