At 05:12 AM 8/30/2002, you wrote:
SSL requires a 7-step handshake between the two systems in order to
establish an SSL connection before any data can be passed. This handshake
also requires multiple cryptographic operations including generation of a
fairly small random number, as well as disk
nsopenssl would give you the ability to talk between your servers
directly.
SSL session caching allows a client and server to set up the initial
connection, and then share a long random id. The server uses the id as
a key and caches the SSL conn info, such as the keys, ciphers and so on
used for