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Real World SSL Benchmarking
Overview
This paper proposes a standard method and metrics for measuring the performance of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol when used to secure Web transactions. This standard benchmark can be used to evaluate SSL acceleration products.
Providing SSL services puts a heavy load on Web servers, which can be off-loaded to SSL
acceleration devices. There are two categories of SSL acceleration products on the market today: SSL co-processors, such as PCI boards, and SSL-terminating appliances. Co-processors offload the cryptographic algorithms, typically only the public key algorithms such as
RSA, while SSL-terminating appliances offload the entire SSL protocol to a separate computer. Co-processors require configuration changes to both the server hardware and the software.
SSL-terminating appliances require no changes to the server’s hardware or software.
| Publisher | Rainbow Technologies | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | September 2001 | Downloads | 20 |
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