ssl_ciphers for speed

[ktm at rice.edu]

On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:50:58PM +0530, Sparsh Gupta wrote:
> Thanks, I dont have AES support in my processor and I tried doing some
> benchmarks with the suggested cipher
> 
> I saw very negligible improvement unfortunately. Is this is the best my
> processor can do? Or is there any thing else I can tweak in my machine (and
> nginx) to improve SSL connections speed
> 
> Thanks
> Sparsh Gupta
> 

If you are using RC4 that is pretty much the best that you can do with
respect to encryption speed. It sounds like the slow part is not the
SSL/TLS encryption.

Cheers,
Ken