10/29 Is there a way to turn off encryption of the data stream in openssh?
Encryption during the authentication process is fine and good, but
sometimes I want to transfer files across a fast network on slow
machines, and the data encryption becomes the bottleneck rather than
the network. I've check the manpage, but the openssh guys seem a little
fascist about encryption. Thanks.
\_ telnet rcp
\_ weird how a bunch of dudes writing security software would be so
anal about all that encryption stuff, huh?
\_ there's anal, then there's too anal.
\_ go ahead and write your own encryption method and compile it
in and just have it not encrypt. the source is always built
with an option to let the user change methods. use it.
\_ you can build it yourself with a null cipher, or just live with
-c arcfour as one of the faster ones. btw, if you are transfering
smallish files, tar cf - | ssh tar xf - will gain much more than
tinkering with ciphers on the crappy scp protocol.
\_ I would think that part of a secure transmission is ensuring that
the data stream hasn't been tampered with. If you don't encrypt
everything, someone could possibly inject bad data. |