[plug] file transfer performance linux/windows and filezilla

[Denis Brown]

At 12:47 11/05/2004 +0800, James Devenish wrote:
>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).

Good thought thanks, James, but for pscp or psftp's command line 
interfaces, cypher selection is not listed as an option.   I will see if 
there are other secure clients on the Windows side.   FileZilla is quite 
user-friendly, so I'd prefer to stay with it, or similar.

Cheers,
Denis