Herbert Graf wrote:

>>> The additional work for SSH is zero, there is no excuse IMHO. Even
>>> if you think there is additional work, I'd rate it as well worth
>>> the effort. 
>>> 
>> Its going to slow the transfer pretty dramatically though. All that
>> encryption has a pretty heavy overhead.
> 
> Perhaps in the old days. These days, with modern multicore CPUs over
> my gigabit network the hit is pretty much negligible.

Are you sure? While of course multicore CPUs work towards making the
impact smaller, the step from a 100Mbps to 1Gbps network works towards
making the impact bigger. Given enough disk throughput, the CPUs have
now ten times (well, maybe not ten times) as much to do to transfer the
data.

Gerhard
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