Re: Can SSH be used just for encrypted authentication and then let the rest of the session be unencrypted ?

[Bob Babcock]

> I was wondering the same thing myself. Why on earth would someone only want
> partial encryption? Drop the whole session down an encrypted pipe and forget
> about it.

It's not an issue for a terminal session, but speed can be a problem for file
transfers on a 100 Mbps network.  I find ftp to be 10 times faster than SSH
between PC's and unix.  There's been some recent discussion about performance
on this list.  The bottom line seemed to be that there are some
inefficiencies in ssh which may be fixed in a future release.  Speed might
also be a factor for X-windows sessions, but I'm not using X much these days.