Re: newbie question

> >What are you trying to test?  Transaction rate...throughput?  Any
> >particular cipher suite?
> 
> I am more interseted in the throughput and I forgot to mention that I will 
> using either iperf or nttcp to test the performance of SSL.
> and regarding the cipher suite it is just the normal session cipher like 
> SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA or SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA

You'll get very different results depending on your cipher
(in my performance tests for nmap I found that eNULL was
actually *SLOWER* than a few ciphers!) and the amount of
data you're sending (huge transfers depend more on the symetric
cipher, very small transfers depend more on the public key
cipher.)



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