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Dispelling the New SSL Myth

Claiming SSL is not computationally expensive is like saying gas is not expensive when you don’t have to drive to work every day.  My car is eight years old this year. It has less than 30,000...
Published Jan 31, 2011
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BIG-IP
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data center feng shui
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Great catch/reminder from @hrbrmstr that SNI (extensions to TLS/SSL) can be used to address the issue of virtual hosts / web servers and certificate management.

 

 

If you haven't looked into it you can read the TLS-related RFC here or a Wikipedia article on the subject (with lots of related links).

 

 

Lori

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