On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Mark Hahn wrote:
It would be nice if they would revive the old ssh flag for turning off
encryption altogether. That alone would make let us all finally and
the PSC folk have a patch for that "HPN SSH". it works fine.
it's actually smart enough to do the session setup (auth, etc)
using the usual set of ciphers, then switches to unencrypted ("ssh
-oNoneSwitch=yes -oNoneEnabled=yes").
Any idea if the openssh people are going to incorporate the patch
permanently? Any hope of replacing the "Ciphers none" option (even with
I think they've permanently rejected it.
Grrrr. Do the PSC folks plan to put their code into e.g. F8 as a
fork/option? It is so easy to yum install X, so big a pain to hand
build an rpm to install as an alternative and then have to hand maintain
thereafter as e.g. security fixes come out.
rgb
I find that arcfour is a lot faster than the other (non-none) defaults.
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