SSL Demands on Processing Power
SSL transactions require a great deal of computing power to encrypt and decrypt information being passed over the Internet. A server that can easily process over 1,000 unsecured transactions can find itself bogged down handling only 50 to 60 secure transactions. There are several reasons for these performance issues.
To begin with, establishing an SSL connection with the 1,024-bit encryption required takes 10 times longer on average than an unsecured Web transaction. This problem is compounded by the nature of Internet traffic.
Instead of a steady state of a bell curve of usage, the pattern tends to run in sudden bursts in usage. The traffic created by these bursts can be more than 10 times the ordinary flow. During ...
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