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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