Peter, Use High Performance SSH/SCP - HPN-SSH - see http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ for the details.
Regards, Val Baranov CISSP CEH MCSE CCA Sr. Unix Systems Administrator Global Infrastructure Service Delivery Revlon Daytime ph. #: 919-603-3169 Cell ph. #: 919-274-9960 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Austin Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/28/2007 10:51 AM To "Peter Daum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc [email protected] Subject Re: ssh without encryption (authentification only)? 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"
