Re: Crypto-sendmail (was Crypto Coding Project)

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Enzo Michelangeli (em@who.net)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:16:11 +0800

-----Original Message-----
From: EKR <ekr@terisa.com>
To: Adam Shostack <adam@weathership.homeport.org>
Cc: Trei, Peter <ptrei@securitydynamics.com>; CodherPlunks@toad.com
<CodherPlunks@toad.com>
Date: Thursday, August 20, 1998 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Crypto-sendmail (was Crypto Coding Project)

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>I doubt this will be an acceptable long-term solution,
>on heavily loaded mail servers because the performance costs
>of the fork() are excessive.

Well, key negotiation is much harder on the CPU resources than a fork().
Luckily, SSL/TLS could come to the rescue, thanks to its ability to use a
session for multiple TCP connections.

Enzo

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