Comment on Overclocking SSLparentComments−lmz15yFor SSL, aren't the individual packets encrypted with a symmetric cypher e.g. AES, RC4, 3DES, etc?−caf15yYes, the data stream is encrypted using a symmetric cipher, as the linked article says. The overhead of this is trivial.It's the key exchange at the start of a session that requires the server to perform expensive RSA operations, which is why session caching helps.
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For SSL, aren't the individual packets encrypted with a symmetric cypher e.g. AES, RC4, 3DES, etc?
Yes, the data stream is encrypted using a symmetric cipher, as the linked article says. The overhead of this is trivial.
It's the key exchange at the start of a session that requires the server to perform expensive RSA operations, which is why session caching helps.