sftp/scp performance testing

[mandar at webchat.chatsystems.com]

I've heard some users say they get much better scp/sftp performance over
SSH1, that's why I was curious..thanks

- Mandar

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Markus Friedl wrote:

> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 00:11:51 +0100
> From: Markus Friedl <markus at openbsd.org>
> To: Dan Kaminsky <dan at doxpara.com>
> Cc: mandar at webchat.chatsystems.com, openssh-unix-dev at shitei.mindrot.org
> Subject: Re: sftp/scp performance testing
>
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:03:55PM -0800, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> > What should make a difference is whether the SSH1 or SSH2 protocols are
> > used -- SSH1 implicitly authenticates packets,
>
> that's not true. SSH1 does not really authenticate packets,
> it just uses CRC, while SSH2 uses a true MAC (e.g. hmac-md5
> or hmac-sha1).
>
> > for what cannot be decrypted
> > cannot be modified, while SSH2 uses a separate layer to guarantee that
> > packets are not modified in transit.
>
> -m
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