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Re: Should login pages be protected by SSL? Jun 21 2005 09:14AM
Kalyan Varma (kalyan rtns org)
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Amir Herzberg wrote:

> Here is a simple question: should web login forms be always protected by SSL?

Depends.

If you have a site with high traffic, then the SSL load will hurt your
server. For every SSL request, you can handle more then 5 non-SSL
requests. Are you ready for...

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