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[Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxx>]

2011/3/2 Michael Barton <mike-launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> HMAC is sort of appealing for Swift, since it'd let people choose to
> use HTTP instead of HTTPS for data that's not sensitive.

I'd like to just mention this blog post:

   http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html

tl;dr quote:

    If you stop reading now you only need to remember one thing:
    SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more.


Just sayin'. :)


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