Making SSL Fast, Overclocking mod_ssl

The RC4 choice seems fishy, especially considering how easy it is to get hardware-accelerated AES these days. If you want to use weak encryption, why use encryption at all?

Anyone use ssl acceleration cards these days?

New Intel processors have hardware-accelerated AES built in. Apparently an i5 with this does about 2G/s AES encryption, while my i7 without this does about 80M/s AES encryption. Yeah.

Why do we keep hearing about mod_ssl overclocking? Have any of you overclocked your Cassandra lately? what about your Apache? Does MySQL have a multiplier that can be tweaked with? Or voltage settings on the BIOS?

"Yeah dude, I water cool my SSL. Look at those dark blue LEDs glow."

Your comment would be funny if the author didn't explain this right in the first sentence:

At Velocity, I saw Adam Langley give a great presentation entitled Overclocking SSL.

As you can see, he named his article "Overclocking mod_ssl" because the other guy named his talk "Overclocking SSL". Reading comprehension. A good thing to get before writing.