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Yes, of course I have evidence. Refer to Google's experience in 2010 when they switched Gmail to HTTPS by default [1]:

> On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead.

> If you stop reading now you only need to remember one thing: SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more.

1. https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h...




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