[plug] file transfer performance linux/windows and filezilla

[James Devenish]

In message <5.1.0.14.2.20040511120816.022c1ec0 at cyllene.uwa.edu.au>
on Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:43:22PM +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
> For example the ssh (login) client on Linux will accept a -c parameter
> to define which cypher is being used.   By default this seems to be
> 3des.   Blowfish is claimed to be a faster algorithm but I see no way
> (in FileZilla at least, or the associated PuTTY) of forcing a
> particular cypher.  In PuTTY on a session-by-session basis the
> preferred encryption algorithm can be set, but this doesn't seem to
> carry over to FileZilla.

Are you able to try a PuTTY scp/sftp client on the Windows side,
choosing Blowfish, and see if the result is normal? Although the
low performance does seem particularly startling, it's not exactly
out-of-character for 3DES (if, indeed, that is the problem).