[afnog] privacy vs caching

[Randy Bush]

Johan Bernhardsson <johan at kafit.se> wrote:
> 
> For Me it is a balance between security and speed and depends on the
> customer greatly.
> 
> Many of my customers has ssl termination in the cache. But they require
> a lot of speed and low latency (over 4k hits per second on the cache)
> 
> Using ssl end to end on their systems would probably kill the website if
> all the backend servers would handle encryption and have less cache.
> Every millisecond there matters.
> 
> But if it was a banking application i would probably scale it
> differently and apply ssl all the way to the backend systems and cache
> it differently.
> 
> /Johan

i understand.  btw, where in africa are you?

randy