[AusNOG] Experiences with web load balancers

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Feb 22, 2010, at 11:53 AM, David Hughes wrote:

> Your servers will thank you for it.

Yes, but it breaks the end-to-end cryptosystem model, which is a Bad Thing.

;>

There are SSL accelerator cards which can be plugged into the buses of various types of servers which can offload SSL processing from the main CPU.

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