Why are secure sites so much slower?

[erub]

I have DSL..and most every website loads pretty quickly. Well..not secure sites. The two that really bug me are Cingular and Chase Bank. Cingular works about half the time, and I can check my minutes about 1/4 of the time...Chase is just cumbersome, and coupled with the slow loading secureness of it...argh what a pain. Do these companies need new web authors or are they hindred by the "secureness" of the web?

 

[erub]

ttt

 

[vi edit]

It's possible for the encrytption to chew up *some* bandwith. Don't know if it would really be that significant of an overhead though.

Have you tried updating your browser?

 

[erub]

it is updated...its IE 6, that came with Windows XP (I have run windows update, and installed all the updates since then)

 

[xaigi]

Encryption doesnt "chew up" bandwidth. In fact, just about all implementations of modern encryption compress data before encrypting and sending it.

The problem is with the owners of these servers. They probably provided the same hardware per user to thier secure servers as they would to a normal server, thus leaving thier secure servers overloaded. (You need to have more hardware per user for a secure server to cover the overhead of providing encryption for hundreds of users at a time.