turning on none cipher for v1 and v2 server

Mordechai Ovits movits at bloomberg.com
Wed Jul 4 03:29:23 EST 2001


On Tuesday 03 July 2001 01:31, Steve VanDevender wrote:
> Mordechai Ovits writes:
>  > Well, I need it for business reasons.   Can you point me to the people
>  > that hacked the support in?
>
> The only reason I've ever seen people give for wanting to have "none"
> encryption is that they think the encryption is slowing down transfers
> or consuming too much CPU time.  Generally neither of those things
> happen, especially if you use the Blowfish or AES/Rijndael ciphers which
> are very efficient.  Unless you're copying very large files you'll
> actually consume much more CPU time doing authentication (RSA isn't
> cheap, and DSA is worse).

We need it for business reasons.  We have a requirement for a no-encryption 
zone.  A tiny little one-off subnet, but I still need it.

Mordy
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Mordy Ovits
Network Engineer
Bloomberg L.P.



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