Performance of scp with OpenSSH - 5.1p1

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, S, Senthilprabu (NSN - IN/Bangalore) wrote:

> Hello Damien,
> 
> Thanks a lot for the reply!!!
> 
> > Did you enable UMAC 64?
> 
> I did not do any specific setting wrt UMAC-64 explicitly when I used the
> scp command. But do read on net that some kind of configuration can be
> done in ssh/sshd config file. Is it true?

MAC algorithms, like ciphers, are selected at runtime. The following
command is an example, but there is no substitute for reading the 
documentation:

> > scp -oCiphers=arcfour256 -oMACs=umac-64 at openssh.com ...