topic Re: SSL Accelerator in Operating System - HP-UX

SSL Accelerator

Suhas_2 — Fri, 23 Aug 2002 06:52:25 GMT

Guys,
Anybody knows what is an SSL Accelerator ?
How it works ?
Any Good documents on it ?

Cheers'
Suhas
^D

Re: SSL Accelerator

Steve Steel — Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:26:26 GMT

Hi

http://www.hp.com/large/news/services/aug01_c.html

Over time, network administrators have used a variety of techniques to speed the processing of SSL transactions. One approach is to add more Web servers or CPUs, but hardware and licensing costs can make this prohibitive. Another method is to add SSL accelerator cards for each Web server. This speeds the processing of SSL transactions, but different cards are needed for various processors, and managing various device drivers and interface software can be complex.

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=P4516A

hp e-commerce server accelerator sa7100

http://netserver.hp.com/docs/download.asp?file=tp_ecommerceserver.pdf

Should suffice

Steve Steel

Re: SSL Accelerator

Pete Randall — Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:38:30 GMT

And, for what it's worth, the Itanium processors excel at SSL. You might want to look into IPF in the future.

Pete

Re: SSL Accelerator

harry d brown jr — Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:43:54 GMT

accelerator's are a pain in the arse, they require a lot of maintenance, and basically are very clumsy to work with! get an appliance to do it!. been there done that!

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harry