2011/3/2 Michael Barton <mike-launchpad at weirdlooking.com>: > HMAC is sort of appealing for Swift, since it'd let people choose to > use HTTP instead of HTTPS for data that's not sensitive. I'd like to just mention this blog post: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html tl;dr quote: If you stop reading now you only need to remember one thing: SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more. Just sayin'. :) -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com/ OpenStack Developer http://www.openstack.org/