if facebook uses the https system why doesnt the system be slow as there is so much data to encrypt even as each person,album is a separate object on the social graph.please i want t know this so even if the question might seem supid to some please nswer it
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It is obviously slower than it would be with HTTP, but Facebook has a lot of servers, so there's reasonably good concurrency and latency is minimized.
Matthew Flaschen
2010-06-16 16:23:32
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They probably use hardware encryption. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSL_acceleration
Larry K
2010-06-16 16:43:11