[LINK] The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection

Ivan Trundle ivan at itrundle.com
Thu Jun 11 08:39:44 AEST 2009


On 11/06/2009, at 1:56 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:

> An analysis and discussion of an https connection using TLS.  There
> are a few milliseconds of data exchanged in the clear before the
> encrypted pipe starts up.

The word 'few' is not accurate: 220 milliseconds is a long time -  
especially when expressed in over 5000 words and quite a few pictures.

iT

(but very informative nonetheless)

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