Network pipes

Bruce M Simpson bms at spc.org
Fri Jul 25 05:31:17 PDT 2003


On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:51:27PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:48:23PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> ssh -c none?
> 
> Note, you don't want to use password authentication in this case, but
> public key should still be ok.

I have patches for this, they may be a little out-of-date:

http://www.incunabulum.com/code/patches/openssh/
http://www.incunabulum.com/code/patches/openssl/

BMS


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