[ale] unencrypted SSH

[Dow Hurst]

I've done what you want with the commercial SSH, since I can use it in 
an educational situation.  You pass a parameter to configure to make 
sure it has all ciphers of which one cipher is "none".  The default 
flags disallow this.  It does speed up the connection quite a bit.  I 
used it within a VPN that Bob Toxen setup to allow a remote X display 
without "double" encryption just like your dealing with.  You have to 
call the cipher you want when you make the connection.  The configure 
flag just includes "none" as an option.
Dow


David Corbin wrote:

>Access to my corporate network is via VPN, that I can easily get to work with 
>Windows (since that's they way IT supports).  I've setup an old laptop to run 
>Windows at home, and I have it run (cygwin) ssh port forwarding so that I can 
>access my office system(s) from the rest of my home LAN (which is 
>substantially Linux, of course).  Now that I've finally made some progress in 
>replacing my office desktop with Linux, I'm sshing to a my local windows 
>system to execute apps on the office system.
>
>What this means, I think, is that my poor little "VPN relay" is having to burn 
>a lot of CPU encrypting and un-encrypting stuff without cause.  One cycle of 
>that is for a local LAN connection where I have complete physical security 
>(my home), and the other is encrypting the port forwarding that's going over 
>a VPN and thus already encrypted once.
>
>So, is there a way to invoke SSH that will NOT do encryption of the basic data 
>stream?
>
>David
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