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Why does initial SSL connection take a while to establish?

April 26, 2017connection initial SSL

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Why does initial SSL connection take a while to establish?

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The very first time a secure connection is established Java must create a secure seed required for the SSL connection. This is a very computationally expensive process and may take up to a few seconds on certain platforms. However, the seed only needs to be computed once per session.