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Originally Posted by photon
The SSL packets themselves shouldn't be creating any kind of bottleneck that I can think of, SSL puts a load on a server when that server has to actually decrypt it (like on the web server), otherwise it's just a normal packet as far as a router or whatever is concerned isn't it?
If the Tor users are setting up the app as a server though that will generate extra bandwidth, though Tor usually tries to be pretty light in that respect, only 20KB/s by default I think (though they can crank that up).
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Well that is my question too. I was told the onion routers are causing bottlenecks in the network because of something involved with SSL.
I would assume it has something to do with everything being decrypted? I'm not sure.
It definitely has something to do with SSL. I'll have to find out more. Reason I say that is because during the Grey Cup, Olympics, when a lot of people were watching online events and using bandwidth, the hardware in place had no problem designating priority bandwidth to VOIP or IPTV, which ran flawlessly during that time.
Of course none of those things were over SSL.