[afnog] privacy vs caching

[Johan Bernhardsson]

Working mostly from my office in Sweden but have clients around the
African continent.

Seychelles, Kenya, South Africa and others ...

/Johan



On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 02:27 -0500, Randy Bush wrote:
> 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

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