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[Scott <catfather AT donpoo.net>]

On Nov 30, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Steven Champeon wrote:

> on Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 09:01:40PM -0500, Tony Spencer wrote:
> > Hey Michael,
> > I'm a fan of Geotrust.  I can also tell you that I learned the  
> > hard way and
> > bought a cheap comodo ssl cert some years ago and it was damn  
> > slow.  I had
> > no idea at the time that a cert could slow down your site or even  
> > cause it
> > to timeout but now I fully understand why and I will always go for  
> > a better
> > more expensive cert.
>
> I don't fully understand why such a thing could happen. Can you share
> your full understanding of this important issue with the rest of us?

I would be curious about this as well. My only guess would be that a  
"cheap cert" might have to be resolved through several CAs before  
finding the Root CA would you cause the browser to do extra work on  
each SSL connection. I'm not even sure if this guess is sane.

If it is I would be curious to benchmark it to see how much you  
really could loose.

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