Caracterización y medida para el rendimiento para conexiones web seguras, HTTPS

Abstract

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are the most popular protocol used in the World Wide Web to enable secure communications. These protocols provide the essential ingredients to implement privacy, integrity and authentication. Though it is well understood that security always comes at the cost of performance, this cost depends on the cryptographic algorithms. The objective of this project is to characterize the impact of SSL on HTTP connections. To characterize a secure connection, different parameters such as the total number of packets, TCP data exchanged and the time required to download an object will be analyzed. Furthermore, they will be compared with the results obtained from a non secure connection. This will make possible to know the data and processing overhead generated by the cryptographic algorithms. With the conclusions, we will provide a or rule function to characterize any HTTPS connection.