hardware crypto and SSL?

Gregory Sutter gsutter at zer0.org
Wed Oct 22 13:10:12 PDT 2003


On 2003-10-21 20:27 -0700, Bill Swingle <unfurl at dub.net> wrote:
> Is anyone successfully using some sort of hardware crypto solution to
> combat the overhead of SSL in http transactions? I'd love to hear
> anything good or bad about this.

Bill,

Alteon and F5, among others, both make SSL acceleration appliances.
I'm sure a device like this would greatly speed the processing of
your HTTPS transactions.  Good stuff.

Greg
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