SSH authentication bypass?

[Kevin D. Clark]

Mark Komarinski writes:

> HPN SSH (patches to boost ssh performance) allows for no encryption
> of the data stream but IIRC the authentication is encrypted.  That
> doesn't bypass authentication so this may not be related

The following statement is based on my experience with these patches:
I didn't notice much of a difference from these patches when I was
copying a certain {large-ish, constantly updating} file from a site on
the West Coast to a site in NH.  

I probably had around 100 samples in my data-set, and I just didn't
see a difference.  All of these samples related to "scp" operations
that were occurring over the public Internet.  I tried as much as
possible to perform my experiments during times of the day in which
the network was quiet (but this was/is a crapshoot on the general
Internet, of course).

I had high-hopes for these patches....specifically the parts of the
patches that did things with increasing buffer sizes.  If I could have
gotten this particular file to arrive in NH a bit faster this would
have made my work a bit easier.


Like I said, this is just my experience with these patches.


Regards,

--kevin
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