Network pipes

[Tim Kientzle]

Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>>I think this should just be a utility like Luigi suggested.  This will
>>help "solve" these problems.
> 
> And in large part the traditional netpipe/socket tools in combination with
> the -L and -R flags of SSH solve these issues rather handily. And when
> used with ssh-keyagent rather nicely.

But piping GBs of data through an encrypted SSH connection
is still slow.  The performance issues the OP is
trying to address are real.

Another approach would be to add a new option to SSH
so that it could encrypt only the initial authentication,
then pass data unencrypted after that.  This would
go a long way to addressing the performance concerns.

Tim