Re: [HACKERS] Speed of SSL connections; cost of renegotiation - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Speed of SSL connections; cost of renegotiation
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Msg-id 041901c2ffd8$0e1018f0$6500a8c0@fhp.internal
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In response to Speed of SSL connections; cost of renegotiation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Yeah, I looked at mod_ssl before sending in my gripe.  AFAICT Apache
> *never* forces a renegotiation based on amount of data sent --- all that
> code is intended just to handle transitions between different webpages
> with different security settings.  So is that a precedent we can follow;
> or is it an optimization based on the assumption that not a lot of data
> will be transferred on any one web page?

How about a GUC variable:

ssl_renegotiation = 0  # no unnecessary renegotiation
ssl_renegotiation = 64000 # renegotiate every 64000 bytes

Chris

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