Buzz Issue: Crypto craziness, 09/11/00

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

spin headline

Here’s a look at 10 additional technologies circulating through the industry spin cycle.

By Network World Staff
Network World, 09/11/00

Crypto craziness

That buzz you hear is the sound of a cryptographic accelerator chewing through 64-bit blocks of encrypted data.

That happy humming comes from your Web server, which never has to worry about choking on another CPU-hogging algorithm.

And that cha-ching you hear is the sound of virtual cash registers ringing up sales.

If you're serious about doing business on the Internet, you need cryptographic acceleration. The explanation is simple: When a Web shopper fills out order forms and enters credit card information, a Secure Sockets Layer session is initiated and the traffic is encrypted. Now, your Web server's CPU is doing computational heavy lifting that it was never designed to do. Before cryptographic accelerators, you had to buy more servers. But now you can drop a PCI card into your server or install a free-standing appliance that does the encryption and decryption.

Recent Network World tests of Intel's NetStructure 7110 e-Commerce Accelerator show how significant performance gains can be with acceleration. The Web server alone handled 2,000 transactions in 5 minutes and 10 successful connections per second. With NetStructure, it handled 4,200 transactions in 5 minutes and 100 successful connections per second.

- Neal Weinberg

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