Re: SSH2 Encryption
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 01:13:06PM -0400, Jeff Bonner <jeff@integralogic.com> wrote...
> 3) Any reason you *wouldn't* want to use compression in SSH?
Besides the potential save on bandwidth, it depends on what you
transfer over the wire. If you are lucky, the space saving is so big
that you save more CPU-encryption-power than the extra overhead of
compressing the content. You save CPU-power and bandwidth.
On the contray, if the data doesn't compress very weill, you have
a large overhead without much savings.
I turn on compression for interactive shell use and port forwarding but
turn it off for file transfer, as those files tend to already be compressed
anyways.
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