ssh dump What is blowfish?

[Will Saxon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DanB [mailto:longterm at chatusa.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 9:27 AM
> To: freebsd
> Subject: ssh dump What is blowfish?
> 
> 
> # /sbin/dump -0uan -f - /usr | gzip -2 | ssh1 -c blowfish \
>               targetuser at targetmachine.example.com dd
> of=/mybigfiles/dump-usr-l0.gz
> What is the blowfish? I s this the users name?  File name?
> 
> Dan
> 

Blowfish in an encryption algorithm. 'man ssh' and you can read about the various algorithms you can specify via -c.

-Will