For the record, sending unencrypted data over a local network isn't safe as soon as WIFI is part of said local network.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 17:02 Martin Dobias <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Matthias > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 8:48 AM Matthias Kuhn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The documentation currently promises "massive speed-ups in PostGIS layer > > rendering" with SSL disabled. [1] > > > > [...] > > > > Is there anyone who knows why this sentence was introduced? And if there > > is (still) an issue with performance when using SSL? > > As Jurgen has commented on the pull request already, we have figured > out that QGIS was taking a lot more time to access features from a > local PostgreSQL database compared to some other app (uDig?). I have > dug out an old mail with the measurement - the difference was ~12 > seconds to fetch data in QGIS vs ~4 seconds to fetch data in the other > app. In the end we figured out that disabling encryption removed that > penalization. All that was back in 2009 :-) > > Unless there have been some improvements in the server/client lib, I > think the promise of massive speed up is still valid... And as Andreas > mentions, most(?) of the time people use the DB on a local network, so > it should not be a big deal to send data on local network unencrypted. > > Cheers > Martin > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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