[Sussex] Mail for Nik

[Chris Jones]

Hi

On Tue, 12 April, 2005 15:12, steve at dobson.org said:
>> The network not the encryption?
>
> I assume you mean compression.

ssh compresses by default so that will be affecting the speed, but the
encryption will be slowing things down too, probably more so. Most decent
compression can be done in real time on modern CPUs (zlib, for example, is
fast and gives good compression, of the order of 6:1 on english text).

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