WILS: SSL TPS versus HTTP TPS over SSL
The difference between these two performance metrics is significant so be sure you know which one you’re measuring, and which one you wanted to be measuring. It may be the case that you...
Published Feb 03, 2010
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Lori_MacVittie
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Lori_MacVittie1
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I can't speak for others definitively, but the most commonly used cipher for web sites is still RC4-MD5. Folks are beginning to move to AES-based ciphers but the majority of sites using SSL today are still using RC4-MD5.
So when we test we test against both RC4-MD5 and AES256-SHA ciphers.
Lori