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[Maris Fogels <maris.fogels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/08/2010 10:23 AM, Maris Fogels wrote:
> On 07/08/2010 05:15 AM, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I thought this talk might be of interest to Launchpad developers
> > working to
> > improve performance. It's aimed at HTTP sites wanting to add security,
> > but
> > I think much of the information is applicable to an existing TLS site
> > like
> > Launchpad as well.
> >
> > http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html
> >
> > This is a write up of the talk that I gave at Velocity 2010 last
> > Thursday. This is a joint work of myself, Nagendra Modadugu and Wan-Teh
> > Chang.)
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > If there's one point that we want to communicate to the world, it's that
> > SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more. Ten years ago it
> > might have been true, but it's just not the case any more. You too can
> > afford to enable HTTPS for your users.
>
> Nice! Thanks Matt, that is very timely and topical for what we are doing
> on the Foundations team right now. The slides have already have me
> thinking of a tuning point or two we could look at to improve
> Launchpad's SSL performance.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Maris


For interest's sake, here is a quick SSL tuning checklist I wrote from the 
points in the presentation (you still need the presentation for context):

  http://ubuntuone.com/p/93Y/


Maris