LZ4 compression in openssh

Dan Kaminsky dan at doxpara.com
Fri Oct 25 19:02:50 EST 2013


Compression has some problematic interactions with encryption that OpenSSH
seems to have handled far before anyone else (by having it off by default).

On Thursday, October 24, 2013, Darren Tucker wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 07:30:38PM -0400, Mark E. Lee wrote:
> > I'm a long time user of openssh and I was wondering if there is any work
> > towards supporting alternative compression methods in openssh like LZ4?
>
> not that I've heard of.
>
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