EncryptedData Performance Issue

[mbiro]

Dim context As SoapContext = EnrollWS.RequestSoapContext

context.Security.Timestamp.TtlInSeconds = 60

context.Security.Tokens.Add(signatureToken)

context.Security.Tokens.Add(encryptionToken)

context.Security.Elements.Add(New EncryptedData(encryptionToken))


The last line is causing a performance issue. If I comment that line out, the page renders in less than one second. With the line, the page takes over 15 seconds. Any ideas?

 

[chiph]

Encryption uses a lot of CPU. How powerful are your machines? And do you have hardware-accelerated encryption (add-in PCI board)?

Chip H.


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[mbiro]

Thanks for the reply. I am developing on my desktop with Visual Studio. When deloyed, the solution will be on an Enterprise class Windows 2003 server. I am seeing the dramatic performance issue on my desktop.

 

[chiph]

So, how is the CPU on your machine compared to production? Any aggressive anti-virus running? Memory usage? Running in the IDE vs. as a standalong app?

All these things can affect performance. Unless you have a way to test in an identical environment, and have instrumented your code with calls to PerformanceCounter objects (shows up in PerfMon), both of us are only guessing as to the cause.

Chip H.


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