patch adding none cipher/mac for ssh v2

Michael A Stevens mstevens at cmu.edu
Mon Nov 15 14:49:30 EST 2004



On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Markus Friedl wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 01:21:45PM +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
>> Users who ask for ssh with 'none' encryption are paying the openssh
>> developers a compliment by showing that ssh is worth using for its
>> code quality and ease-of-use alone, even without the added security of
>> strong encryption.
>
> why don't you use arcfour as a cipher if you don't
> need strong encryption?  i doubt that 'none' is faster.

None with a MAC algorithm is actually significantly faster than ARCFOUR.


Mike




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