Improving SSL’s Performance in Software

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Abstract: The paper focuses on an algorithmic approach for speeding up SSL’s performance on a web server. Our approach improves the performance of SSL’s handshake protocol by up to a factor of three for 1024-bit RSA keys. It is especially well-suited for heavily-loaded web servers handling many concurrent SSL sessions. We improve the server’s performance by batching the SSL handshake protocol. That is, we show that b SSL handshakes can be done faster as a batch than doing the b handshakes separately one after the other. Experiments show that taking b = 4 leads to optimal results, namely a speedup of a factor of 3. Our starting point is a technique due to Fiat for batching RSA decryptions.

Type of resource	text
Date created	2000

Author	Shacham, Hovav
Advisor	Boneh, Daniel
Advisor	Ullman, Jeffrey D.
Department	Stanford University. Department of Computer Science.

Subject	Computer networks > Security measures
Subject	World Wide Web > -Security measures
Subject	Computer network protocols
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/hn955wp7476

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Preferred Citation: Shacham, Hovav (2000). Improving SSL’s Performance in Software. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/hn955wp7476

Undergraduate Theses, School of Engineering

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