Re: sftp speed degradation with ZA?

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel@bellatlantic.net)
Date: 05/25/02 

From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 03:04:49 GMT

"Shing-Fat Fred Ma" <fma@doe.carleton.ca> wrote in message
news:3CEE946D.1109744C@doe.carleton.ca...
> Hi,
>
> I made a mistake in the following posting.
> sftp seems to be 1 to 2 orders of magnitude
> slower than ftp in my setup, even with
> ZoneAlarm inactive. Is this an inherent
> bottleneck with sftp , or is there something I
> can do to alleviate this?

Well, it requires encryption/decryption in real time, so yeah, it could slow
things down if you don't have spare cycles to do it.

Me, for big stuff, I tend to put big encrypted tarballs up publicly, SSH in,
grab them with wget, then decrypt them with keys transmitted only via SSH.

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