No, SSL will eat up the CPU. It takes CPU cycles to do the encryption, and
the more the bits the greater the cost. This is the reason that companies
like Intel have developed special hardware devices that will handle the
encryption step.
-=michael=-
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Ekholm
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 1:07 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Faster encryption
I noticed a TPS drop (transactions per second) of factor four when I
benchmarked my application using 128 bit SSL encryption (5 client threads)
compared to non-encrypted benchmarking. I know that the SSL layer is
pluggable in Orion, I use the standard one that comes with Orion 1.4.0.
Is there a faster implementation of SSL for Java/Orion out there, maybe a
native code solution? Or is the standard encryption package already using
native code for the most critical sections? I guess not, as I have used C++
packages for encryption previously and not noticed such CPU eating
behaviour.
/David
"The Las Vegas of Online Gaming" David Ekholm
System Architect
Hammarby Kajväg 14, 120 30 Stockholm
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