Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

[Kevin D. Clark]

Bill McGonigle writes:

> 2a) possibly run ssh with the null cipher, so you just get session
> setup.  Then you're only talking about stream
> encapsulation/multiplexing time as a resource drag, and that can be
> incredibly efficient code (OS's do this all day long, layer upon
> layer).

This is not possible with any SSH implementation that I am familiar
with.

You might be thinking about the SSL/TLS ability to negotiate to a null
cipher/authentication scheme, but SSH!=SSL  (and most implementations
of anything decent that use SSL/TLS preclude you from using
these "null" schemes, probably for the same reasons that the people
who implement SSH do...).

Kind regards,

--kevin
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