Performance Analysis of TLS Web Servers

Proceedings of the Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, NDSS 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Coarfa, Cristian ^a   Druschel, Peter ^a   Wallach, Dan S ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; NETWORK SECURITY; SEEBECK EFFECT; WEB SERVICES;

E-COMMERCE SITES; E-COMMERCE TRANSACTIONS; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; ONLINE TRANSACTION; OPTIMISATIONS; PERFORMANCE COSTS; PERFORMANCES ANALYSIS; RELATIVE COSTS; REUSE; WEB SERVERS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 85094920316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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