Hi,
I'm looking to buy an encrytion accelerator to speed up my web
server.
Almost all manufacturers claim that their hardware can handle
50/60/100/200/600 connections per second (cps).
I'm not sure what they mean by connections per second. Are they
reffering to the SSL handshake or just the RSA part of the handshake?
Do they also do the symmetric key calculations during data transfer?
Is cps directly related to speed?
What i understand is that they can handle 200 new transactions every
second if they are rated for 200 cps. But what these transactions
actually are is ambiguous to me.
These cards sit behind the web server, so it is the web server that
actually accepts client connections. The manufacturers say that a client
must not go away becuase of delay in connecting and their cards avoid
this. The important question here is when does the client feel he is
connected to the site?? when the web server has accepted the connection
or when the handshake has finished ?
Thanks,
Amit.
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