[PATCH] Add scp -1 and -2 options to OpenSSH-3.0.2p1

[Damien Miller]

On 31 Jan 2002, Sturle Sunde wrote:

> Markus Friedl <markus at openbsd.org> writes:
> > SSH2+arcfour is much faster than SSH1+3des
> 
> My tests show they are about the same speed on most architectures.  I
> do have arcfour as the first cipher on the list for SSH2, but
> SSH1+blowfish is much faster than SSH2+arcfour.

You might want to try one of the truncated MACs, this may have some 
affect on performance. e.g.

ssh -oCiphers=arcfour -oMacs=hmac-md5-96 yourhost

HMAC-MD5 is also a little faster than HMAC-SHA1.

-d