Since I installed a gigabit switch and have gigabit cards, I became
aware that SSH encryption is the bottleneck to transferring large
files quickly. The CPU does not keep up with data transfer rate.

I would like to know if there is a "lite" cypher that I could choose
that would be considerably faster. I tried 3des, blowfish and AES-128.

Security does not matter as much in this application, this is a home
LAN. I mean, I do want secure authentication, but I do not care if the
data traffic can be deciphered somewhat more easily than "strong
crypto" can make it.

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Ignoramus19897 <ignoramus19897@NOSPAM.19897.invalid> writes:

> Since I installed a gigabit switch and have gigabit cards, I became
> aware that SSH encryption is the bottleneck to transferring large
> files quickly. The CPU does not keep up with data transfer rate.
>
> I would like to know if there is a "lite" cypher that I could choose
> that would be considerably faster. I tried 3des, blowfish and AES-128.
>
> Security does not matter as much in this application, this is a home
> LAN. I mean, I do want secure authentication, but I do not care if the
> data traffic can be deciphered somewhat more easily than "strong
> crypto" can make it.

In SecureCRT, I see options including RC4 and None for ciphers. Both
of which should be lighter than the 3 you've tried.

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