[auton-users] an interesting observation about scp

[J Boyan]

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...

- A lurker in Cambridge, MA

Dan Pelleg writes:
 > 
 > Here's a way to make scp go faster. Maybe it's well-known, but I just found
 > out about it. It'll significantly help on big transfers (say, 10MB or more).
 > 
 > What you do, is simply use a less CPU-intensive encryption
 > method. Obviously this only helps if the CPU is the bottleneck, but that is
 > the case when you're copying on the CMU network and using sub-Ghz
 > processors.
 > 
 > A lightweight cipher to use is "blowfish". To use it you just type
 > "scp -c blowfish" wherever you would type "scp".
 > 
 > -- 
 > 
 >   Dan Pelleg