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Title: Secure sites are slow
Post by: lurkist on July 21, 2004, 06:40:39 PM

I have noticed that secure sites (eg PayPal) download at much slower rates than ordinary sites.  Not just the download, but the system actually appears to slow as well.  I can find no prefs in Genesis or Ibrowse that deal with secure sites.  Am i missing something?  Also, will this relative difference be the same when i connect with broadband?

Cheers!

Title: Re: Secure sites are slow
Post by: sundown on July 21, 2004, 07:04:12 PM

In IBrowse v2.3 goto Settings/Security/Ciphers.
The 3DES cipher is known to slow down https connections so
I have that one turned off, all the others are on.

Javascript is known to slow down loading of some sites, so
turn it off & see if that helps. In most cases, js is not needed.

Can't help with the BB question, still on dialup myself.

Title: Re: Secure sites are slow
Post by: KennyR on July 21, 2004, 07:11:14 PM

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lurkist wrote:
I have noticed that secure sites (eg PayPal) download at much slower rates than ordinary sites. Not just the download, but the system actually appears to slow as well.

They aren't downloading more slowly - it's just taking CPU power for the decryption. That's why your system seems slow. Decryption is done by the AmiSSL libraries, so there isn't much you can do, except get a faster Amiga, I'm afraid, apart from what sundown suggested.