From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Wed Nov 11 16:49:18 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F378A2C8D3; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:49:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325291100; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:49:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from desk.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C4EA2BDA; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by desk.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BD3233F9F0; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:49:13 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Daniel Kalchev Cc: Jason Birch , John-Mark Gurney , Ben Woods , Bryan Drewery , "freebsd-current\@freebsd.org" , "freebsd-security\@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: OpenSSH HPN References: <86io5a9ome.fsf@desk.des.no> <20151110175216.GN65715@funkthat.com> <56428C84.8050600@FreeBSD.org> <20151111075930.GR65715@funkthat.com> <546376BD-A2E7-4B73-904E-4F33DD82401E@digsys.bg> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:49:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <546376BD-A2E7-4B73-904E-4F33DD82401E@digsys.bg> (Daniel Kalchev's message of "Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:49:52 +0200") Message-ID: <86vb98fpme.fsf@desk.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:49:18 -0000 Daniel Kalchev writes: > I must have missed the explanation. But why having a NONE cypher > compiled in, but disabled in the configuration is a bad idea? It increases the cost of maintaining OpenSSH in base noticeably without providing real value unless you are one of the few people who need HPN and lack the CPU power to perform encryption at line speed. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no