Re: Can SSH be used just for encrypted authentication and then let the rest of the session be unencrypted ?

[David Lloyd]

Hmmm

> Sometimes you want the authentications encrypted to prevent outsiders from
> getting the passwords, but the actual data itself is considered not
> sensitive.  Or your using public key exchange to authenticate, but the data
> is not sensitive.  Being able to turn off the encryption would be nice when
> you have to move gigabytes across a LAN inside of the allowed backup time
> window.  What I've done when I needed to do this is to lower the encryption
> strength to use blowfish instead of IDEA or 3DES.  I've doubled throughput
> by doing this.

Why bother about passwords if you don't care about the data? Surely if
the data isn't worth encrypting then you don't actually need to password
protect it.

You may as well use the r-utilities, or better still something like
PAM's "no authentication" module...

:-(

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