turning on none cipher for v1 and v2 server

Mordechai Ovits movits at bloomberg.com
Wed Jul 4 03:41:14 EST 2001


On Tuesday 03 July 2001 01:38, Michael Salmon wrote:
> 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.
>

I was simply asking for some help in figuring out what was necessary to get 
none cipher.  Perhaps someone else is willing to help?

Thanks,
Mordy
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Mordy Ovits
Network Engineer
Bloomberg L.P.



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