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Re:Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced by logicallee on Friday October 12, 2018 @10:12AM (#18201528)
>It also seem pretty nippy to me

OK. (my experience since the redesign is the opposite.)

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Re:Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced by nimos on Friday October 12, 2018 @10:47AM (#18201777)
The TLS overhead is pretty negligible for gmail. Even though there are a lot of steps here it is only 2 round trips for the handshake. Gmail will also use TLS 1.3 (this is 1.2) if your browser supports it which cuts that down to one round trip.[0]

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning-resources/tls-1-3/

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