[781] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: [linux-security] SSL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Burgess)
Tue Jun 11 11:50:58 1996
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:31:03 -0700
From: Andy Burgess <aab@loach.cichlid.com>
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Reply-To: aab@cichlid.com
[Mod: Quoting trimmed. --Jeff.]
>ssh is a slightly different tool but has these features. US citizens can
>get it from finland but do need to read the documentation to disable certain
>items before their Government will allow them to use it (patent hooha as usual)
SSH also does compression before encrypting, very important for modem
users. Encrypted data is generally not compressable so your modem
throughput is reduced with SSL and may be increased with SSH as it
uses gzip type compression which is better than what the modem hardware
can do.
--
Best regards,
Andy Burgess
aab@cichlid.com
