<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 18, 2008 12:43 AM, Robey Pointer <<a href="mailto:robey@lag.net">robey@lag.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 13 Feb 2008, at 6:48, James Bardin wrote:<br><br><br></div>Adding a None cipher to paramiko would be easy, but of dubious<br>usefulness.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>I think the usefulness would be in high speed data transfer (not sftp) over an arbitrary channel. Theres a number of cluster people on the beowulf list that would love to have this. In many instances one may want secure authentication, but not care about encrypting the data stream. This could make a big difference in paramiko, as my workstation keeps one cpu at 70% to run a channel at 100Mb. This of course depends on both sides allowing a None cipher, which would limit usefulness right now.<br>
<br>-jim<br></div></div><br>