Hi, > Walgamotte, David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] asked: > When ever I install the verisign certificate on a website it slows down > dramatically. This site contains > graphical menus in the SSL sections. [...] > Any work around or fix for this ???? > Which server software are you running and how "fast" is the server machine? SSL encoding does cost you some extra CPU cycles, so a CPU upgrade may be in order. Also, the fact that each image is requested over a new TCP connection may contribute to the slowdown. If you have Apache, you could check wether you have KeepAlive set to on. HTH, Thomas ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]