Re: [AOLSERVER] OT: gearing for speed.... (caching connections)

2002-08-30 Thread Jerry Asher
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

Re: [AOLSERVER] OT: gearing for speed.... (caching connections)

2002-08-30 Thread Scott Goodwin
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