enabling "none" cipher

Nacho naqiao at naqiao.hk
Tue Jan 13 12:01:09 AEDT 2026


> Hey there, that's part of my HPN-SSH patch set.

Just a short question: if I have the patch compiled in and do "ssh -Q cipher" I
should see "none" as a cipher option? (I don't)

> All that being said, I don't maintain the FreeBSD patch so I don't know what

The FreeBSD patch didn't work for me, but didn't have time to look into it,

I'm compiling it for armv6, that could make a difference?

> doing. That is available from https://github.com/rapier1/hpn-ssh/ if you
> feel like trying to build it from source.
 
In that repo I just see the whole openssh source tree already modified.

Do you mantain a .patch file I could apply to the current openssh source?

> One last thing: The none cipher is really only useful when you know the
> session is being CPU limited due to encryption. If you aren't pushing
> multiple Gbps it's unlikely that's the case on more modern processors. It's

Yes, I understand that, have been working with ssh daily for the last 27 years.

The problem here is a slow CPU in an embedded system, and this is connected to a
server in an isolated wired network, it's perfectly safe not to use encription
for data in this use case.



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