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From: Amanda Walker <amanda@alfar.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:54:05 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Oct 13, 2003, at 11:58 AM, Christopher Allen wrote:
> It isn't stream encryption that causes performance problems, but
> public-key encryption. Even with accellerated hardware, PKI take
> significant CPU time. Thus the "Monday Morning Problem" is what
> you have to engineer around.
True. On the other hand, this is the same problem faced by
e-commerce and VPN servers, so there's a fair amount of hardware
available to throw at it. Not without cost, of course.
Amanda Walker
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