Bill, MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/03/2004 17:57:21:
> We are considering offering SSL channels to some of our customers. While > configuring MQ is fairly straight forward, I am not very heavy on SSL > itself, and have the following concern. > > I can imagine various cypher suites potentially cause performance problems > because of the complexity of the encryption algorithms. Does anyone have > any guide lines for which suite to use? Is the overhead experienced just > during the SSL handshake? or is the entire session effected? > Both during SSl Handshake and during message flow. See SupportPac MP1D for costs on z/OS which will give you an overall idea of the cost. > Also, if a customer sends me say, a 1MB message, does encrypting it > "inflate" it to a much larger size? > No - just a small SSL header (of the order of 10s of bytes, rather than 100s or 1000s) > > Thanks in advance > > Bill Anderson > SITA Atlanta, GA > Standard Messaging Engineering > WebSphere MQ Service Owner > 770-303-3503 (office) > 404-915-3190 (cell) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mconnect.aero/ > > Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in > the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com > Archive: http://vm.akh-wien.ac.at/MQSeries.archive Morag Hughson WebSphere MQ for z/OS Development Telephone: +44 (0) 1962 816900 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com Archive: http://vm.akh-wien.ac.at/MQSeries.archive
