Re: ssh with no encryption ?

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker@dodgy.net.au)
Date: 02/24/03 

From: dtucker@dodgy.net.au (Darren Tucker)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:11:09 GMT

In article <868yw7ez02.fsf@number6.magda.ca>,
David Magda <dmagda+netnews@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:
>There have been situations where I wanted to use ssh but without
>encryption. Mostly where rsh(1) has been disabled but ssh(1) has not
>and I want to login without passwords: of course one of the machines
>was a Sparc5 (80Mhz) and encryption really slowed things down (X11
>forwarding).

For what it's worth, you get a worthwhile speedup by recompiling
openssl and openssh with SPARC v8 instructions (-mv8 on gcc) and
specifying a fast cipher (eg aes-128, blowfish). 

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