Re: Disabling Encryption on file transfers

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/24/05

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:44:43 -0400

    "Gushi" <google@gushi.org> wrote in message
    news:1122212960.838039.230040@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
    > Hey all, subject says it all.
    >
    > I was transferring some (big) log files to another box on the same
    > subnet, and while the files were impressively large (5-6gigs each), I
    > found that the time it would take to transfer them was fairly slow
    > (more than 12 hours per file).
    >
    > These were web logs. Nothing secret about them at all. And while I
    > don't like my *password* being sent across in the clear, I think 90
    > percent of the bottleneck is encrypting these things for the trip
    > across.
    >
    > I didn't see it in the man pages, but I figure I'll ask anyway...is
    > there any way to do this without majorly rewriting the spec -- possibly
    > with a modified cipher that drops to nothing after the first X bytes
    > (effectively shutting off its own encryption?)

    Not over SSH, but rsync works just fine for local transfers of non-critical
    files.

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