"cipher none" alternatives ?

[Jason Stone]

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> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 05:11:34PM -0800, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> >     ssh -2 -oCiphers none -oMACs hmac-md5 user at host tar czf - bigdir/ | tar
> > xzvf -
> 
> yes, this would protect the integrity of the transmission.

Though of course, there's going to be a non-trivial expense associated
with MAC'ing.  I have no numbers, but I would imagine that the time
associated with md5 hasing is of the same order as the time associated
with crypting equivalent amounts of data?


 -Jason

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