Monday, 13 January 2020

Speeding up Secure TCP Connections

Implementing SSL/TLS can significantly impact server performance, because the SSL handshake operation (a series of messages the client and server exchange to verify that the connection is trusted) is quite CPU-intensive. The default timeout for the SSL handshake is 60 seconds and it can be redefined with the ssl_handshake_timeout directive. We do not recommend setting this value too low or too high, as that might result either in handshake failure or a long time to wait for the handshake to complete:

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