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Status Submitted
Categories Performance
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 8, 2024

Add an SSP's setting to Increase/Decrease from SSP 64K Buffer Size up to 128K

1. By default, SSP uses an RU (Resource Unit) Buffer Size of 48K RU when passing through file.

2. When a PNode is sending in Secure+ mode, it encrypts the data into 16k SSLB buffers and stuffs them into an RU. SSP must unload these SSLBlocks and decrypt them using the inbound side session key and re-encrypt them for the outbound side using its session key. For some reason, when 4 SSLBlocks come in a 64k RU, our algorithms think there is not enough space in the outbound 64k to fit the 4^th^ SSLBlock, so it leaves it for the next RU. This is inefficient, so we just negotiate a 48k RU up front to make sure that every RU is full.



What is your industry? Financial Markets
How will this idea be used?

Chase is having multiple delays due to product limitation. This is jeopardizing the Sterling footprint at Chase.