Alternatively, just specify "-c blowfish". Blowfish is a fairly light cipher.
On Thu, 2007-27-09 at 16:30 -0400, Austin Murphy wrote: > Hi Peter, > > You want a "null cipher" for the data transport after authentication. > My understanding is that this is possible, but you need to recompile > OpenSSH. > > Austin > > On 9/27/07, Peter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ... maybe a little heretic: is there any way to tell ssh to forward data > > without any encryption. (or using some very "light" cipher)? > > > > I am experimenting with a central backup server that will get data from > > many hosts at the same time via rsync+ssh. > > While I am very concerned about access control (thus ssh/public key > > authentification), the data is transfered over a network that can't > > easily be eavesdropped, so the data encryption would be expendable. > > After doing some tests, it looks like the additional CPU load caused > > by data encryption might be too much ... > > > > Regards, > > Peter Daum > > > > P.S.: I had posted this question before; as I just noticed, > > it was rejected with the comment > > "Please tell the list which version and vendor of SSH you are using" > > The machines in question (all Linux) run different versions of openssh > > (version 4.1 ..4.7, Suse, Debian,or self-compiled); I hadn't noticed > > a new option regarding this issue in newer versions ... > > > >
