turning on none cipher for v1 and v2 server

Michael Salmon ms at speakeasy.net
Wed Jul 4 03:38:55 EST 2001


On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:29:23PM -0400, Mordechai Ovits wrote:
> 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.

Then spend some of that "business money" and get crackin, but
apparently no one is going to do it for you.
 
> Mordy
> -- 
> Mordy Ovits
> Network Engineer
> Bloomberg L.P.

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