Warning message at password prompt

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Thu Feb 14 22:40:16 EST 2002


On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Michael Stone wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:10:07AM +0000, Edward Avis wrote:
> > enable unencrypted connections.  I understand that the OpenSSH
> > maintainers don't want to support this in the main release, but it is
> > useful to me and to some others.
> 
> People keep saying that, but you might as well benchmark it--I've always
> seen that there's enough slowdown in other places that turning off
> encryption doesn't really buy you much on a modern machine.

Especially with a fast cipher (aes,blowfish,arcfour) and the Markus' 
changes detailed in http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105

-d





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