On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:03:48PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > Please keep in mind that SCP has the overhead of encryption. All the > data is encrypted before being sent, and then decrypted at the other > end. So SCP will never be as fast as RCP, HTTP or FTP for file > transfers. I'm not a networking expect, so I won't try to guess how > much performance is lost using SCP. Perhaps someone else who is more > knowledgeable might answer that. There are patches for high-performance SSH at the following link, including one that allows for "null" encryption authentication, while preserving authentication and integrity checking: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ Regards, Bill Rugolsky
