[clue] Drupal and SSL.
    David L. Anselmi 
    anselmi at anselmi.us
       
    Fri May 20 22:40:06 MDT 2011
    
    
  
Yaverot wrote:
> Since his argument is mostly economic (taxing servers), I need to point out the counter argument:
> http://techie-buzz.com/tech-news/google-switch-ssl-cost.html
"OpenSSL tends to allocate about 50KB of memory for each connection. We have patched OpenSSL to 
reduce this to about 5KB."
"SSL has been optimized at its best at Google."
"These facts prove that SSL is not as resource intensive as it is blamed to be."
I'm sold!  Sign us up!
Dave
    
    
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