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Originally Posted by Azure
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.
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The routers can't decrypt the packets though, that's the whole point of the encryption is the only one that can decrypt it is the browser and the web server.
It could be that the SSL packets aren't being shaped because they don't know what they are and they leaving port 443 at a high priority, but that'd be a choice because I'm sure they could push the priority of the encrypted packets down even if they can't be decrypted. Might slow down online banking too, but that's probably low enough usage that it'd be a fair enough tradeoff to ensure the entire network doesn't deteriorate.
But yeah need more info, and I'm not a network guy either so I could be completely off track.