Hi list, On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:33:30 +0100 Andreas Gohr <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For modern server and client hardware the SSL overhead isn't really an > issue anymore (there was a popular article about that recently - maybe > someone has the URL bookmarked?) > > I recommend to switch your whole site to SSL instead. there were many parties supporting HTTPS everywhere in the last year, Google [1] probably being the biggest. FireSheep gave the issue another push with f. e. GitHub switching to HTTPS for everything. At 27C3, there even was a talk about TCP Level encryption for everything. I think we’ll see potential existing performance issues vanish in the next time with Google pushing fast TLS so hard. [1] http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html Regards, Adrian