Re: How to improve scp speed?

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Cary Jamison wrote:

> I think we all know that encryption is a factor.  The site still states :

No, I wouldn't say that we all know that.  I just ran "openssl speed"
and on my very modest Athlon XP 1700 machine and both the aes-128 and
blowfish ciphers clocked in at approximately 60-65 megabytes/sec
throughput.  That's about 50 times faster than the theoretical maximum
throughput of 10Base-T ethernet.  Even this modest system can encrypt 5
times faster than the absolute maximum rate of 100 megabit ethernet.

I think you are vastly overestimating the CPU requirement of
encryption.  And it is also why the original poster should not waste his
time trying to find a nonexistent, useless, and insecure option to
disable encryption.

Brian

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