Re: High Performance SSH/SCP - HPN-SSH

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Am Donnerstag, den 12.07.2007, 22:40 +0200 schrieb Tomas Mraz:
> I'm still a little bit uneasy to allow this patch in. We were trying to
> keep as close to upstream as possible. On the other hand we have other
> changes we have other patches in like the SELinux changes for MLS and
> the recent support for keys in NSS by which we significantly diverge
> from upstream already. So maybe we could reconsider applying the HPN
> patch or at least some less controversial parts of it.

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> But also note that ssh was designed to be primarily a protocol for
> interactive shell sessions and thus it has its limitations which mean
> that it never can be 100% efficient as protocol for large file transfers
> or even establishing VPNs. It seems to me that people which want
> extremely fast and secure file transfers should use different solutions
> like stunnel.
> -- 
> Tomas Mraz
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