> From: Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 09:21:33 -0400
>
> | In the manpage of ssh, the client is able to ask for a non-encryption
> | session.
>
> I'll ask the obvious -- why do you want to do this?
>
> | "Selected cipher type none not supported by server."
> | The ssh1 I am using is ssh1.2.27. I assume I am doing something
> | wrong here because if the client has an option to disable the encryption
> | the server should have the option too.
>
> by default (because it's insecure), the server will not allow non-encrypted
> connections. you'll have to recompile the server to explicitly allow that
> .
>
> but if you don't want encryption, why are you using SSH? use RSH.
I didn't write the original message, but the answer is simple. Sometimes you
want authentication, but don't need or desire encryption.
Or, on my home LAN, where I feel safe, I might want the X tunneling of ssh, but
not really care about encryption.
There are features to ssh other than encryption.
Chris
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