[auton-users] an interesting observation about scp

[Dan Pelleg]

Yeah, that's why I said files larger than 10MB. A careful modeling of 
Auton user's typing and thinking speeds shows this is the exact 
crossover point ;)

But in any case, just drop this in the dotfile and forever forget about it:

alias scp="scp -c blowfish" (in ~/.bashrc, for bash users)
alias scp scp -c blowfish   (in ~/.tcshrc or ~/.cshrc, for tcsh users)

If you want to activate it just for specific hosts but not for others, you
can drop a line to do just that in ~/.ssh/config.
man ssh_config for details.

J Boyan writes:
 > 
 > Of course, when doing timing comparisons between the two methods,
 > don't forget to factor in the extra time spent typing '-c blowfish'.
 > And the time spent pondering whether to type it or not...
 >