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EKR (ekr@terisa.com)
21 Aug 1998 07:26:28 -0700
"Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net> writes:
> [...]
> >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().
Actually, this is irrelevant anyway. I'd forgotten that
sendmail() forks immediately anyway -- or at least did
when last I looked.
> Luckily, SSL/TLS could come to the rescue, thanks to its ability to use a
> session for multiple TCP connections.
This only works when you're getting multiple connections from the
same machine, which may or may not be the case.
-Ekr
-- [Eric Rescorla Terisa Systems, Inc.] "Put it in the top slot."
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:00