On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:43:01 -0800 Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Sam Hartman wrote: > ... > > Yes, Steve almost certanily did slow down any heavy CPU use during > > the time when he was doing the backup. > > > > Our point--Steve, Steve and I--is that for a lot of uses and a lot > > of users, no one cares. > > Perhaps that's why everyone is using security. We don't have a > problem then. > I didn't say that; I said that performance generally isn't the issue. Often, there's a *perception* of a performance issue, because once there was. The bigger problem, in my opinion, is usability. *Lots* of people use SSL, because they don't have to do anything. SSL as used in https has lots of problems I won't go into here, but it is excellent protection against passive eavesdroppers. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf