54208 - accessing client-auth N6 versus Comm4.75 is much slower

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect, P3)

Description

[bill]

scenario:  I have a certificate installed on an ActivCard smartcard.  The
certificate is used to auth me into a website.  Accessing that website takes
about half the time to initially load and takes about half the time to fully
load when using 4.75 versus N6.

I'm using the daily build of N6 2000092608 and RTM Communicator 4.75.  ActivCard
software is ActivCard Gold 1.21.

Comment 1

[John Unruh]

Changing QA contact to nitinp

Comment 2

[John Unruh]

Mass reassigning nitinp's bugs to me.

Comment 3

[Arthur]

Having the same problem. THe performance is so bad, I can't use it for e-banking.
You can compare the performance for example on the e-banking site at:

https://banking.migrosbank.ch/demo.html

I have no idea why it's so slow and whether it's caused by the banks software or
PSM or another part of mozilla. I'm using Build 2001012108.
I don't use PSM with Netscape 4.76.

Comment 4

[Bob Lord]

Is this still a problem?

Target -> 2.0

Comment 5

[Arthur]

It seems to have got better since the landing of PSM 2.0. But on the site
mentioned above I measured a loading time of 20 seconds versus 7 seconds in
NS4.76 which still isn't really good.

Comment 6

[Bob Lord]

shadow:  is this a client-auth problem or a server-auth problem?

Comment 7

[David P. Drinan]

Fixed in PSm 2.0

Comment 8

[John Unruh]

Verified.