Dealing with roaming machines

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Thu Dec 25 21:27:33 EST 2014


Hi,

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 01:20:40AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> When I ssh it means that the connection is encrypted both by OpenVPN
> and by SSH.  But it is always over WiFi so the performance bottleneck
> is the WiFi and the double encryption is insignificant then.

If all you ever do is SSH, and double ecryption bothers you, you could 
run openvpn with "--cipher none" (and still get HMAC, FWIW).

Which, of course, is strictly non-recommended for the general use case :-)

gert
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