Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 15:34:54 -0500 From: Gary Schrock <root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> To: Brandon Huey <bh@synergy.transbay.net>, Gary Schrock <root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, miker@scifair.acadiau.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backing up via rdump using ssh Message-ID: <4.1.19981118153356.00a31d40@eyelab.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981118123826.26449A-100000@synergy.transbay. net> References: <4.1.19981118151933.00a38a00@eyelab.msu.edu>
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At 12:38 PM 11/18/98 -0800, Brandon Huey wrote: > >ssh's default cipher _is_ blowfish. According to the man page, the default is idea: -c idea|des|3des|blowfish|arcfour|none Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the ses- sion. idea is used by default. It is believed to be secure. des is the data encryption standard, but is breakable by governments, large corpora- tions, and major criminal organizations. 3des (triple-des) is encrypt-decrypt-encrypt triple with three different keys. It is presumably more secure than DES. It is used as default if both sites do not support IDEA. blowfish is an encryption algo- rithm invented by Bruce Schneier. It uses 128 bit keys. arcfour is an algorithm published in the Usenet News in 1995. This algorithm is believed to be equivalent with the RC4 cipher from RSA Data Security (RC4 is a trademark of RSA Data Security). This is the fastest algorithm currently supported. Gary Schrock root@eyelab.msu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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