Re: Speed of SSL connections; cost of renegotiation

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Sean Chittenden" <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Speed of SSL connections; cost of renegotiation
Date: 2003-04-11 03:11:32
Message-ID: 041901c2ffd8$0e1018f0$6500a8c0@fhp.internal
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> Yeah, I looked at mod_ssl before sending in my gripe. AFAICT Apache
> *never* forces a renegotiation based on amount of data sent --- all that
> code is intended just to handle transitions between different webpages
> with different security settings. So is that a precedent we can follow;
> or is it an optimization based on the assumption that not a lot of data
> will be transferred on any one web page?

How about a GUC variable:

ssl_renegotiation = 0 # no unnecessary renegotiation
ssl_renegotiation = 64000 # renegotiate every 64000 bytes

Chris

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