[ale] unencrypted SSH

[Geoffrey]

David Corbin wrote:
> Access to my corporate network is via VPN, that I can easily get to work with 
> Windows (since that's they way IT supports).  I've setup an old laptop to run 
> Windows at home, and I have it run (cygwin) ssh port forwarding so that I can 
> access my office system(s) from the rest of my home LAN (which is 
> substantially Linux, of course).  Now that I've finally made some progress in 
> replacing my office desktop with Linux, I'm sshing to a my local windows 
> system to execute apps on the office system.
> 
> What this means, I think, is that my poor little "VPN relay" is having to burn 
> a lot of CPU encrypting and un-encrypting stuff without cause.  One cycle of 
> that is for a local LAN connection where I have complete physical security 
> (my home), and the other is encrypting the port forwarding that's going over 
> a VPN and thus already encrypted once.
> 
> So, is there a way to invoke SSH that will NOT do encryption of the basic data 
> stream?

Hmmm, I don't know, but you could use the blowfish cypher, it's a bit 
faster.  Not as secure, but generally considered secure enough.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995