Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @10:19PM from the recovering-wasted-bandwidth dept.

neo writes "Chris Rapier has presented a paper describing how to dramatically increase the speed of SCP networks. It appears that because SCP relies on a single thread in SSH, the crypto can sometimes be the bottleneck instead of the wire speed. Their new implementation (HPN-SSH) takes advantage of multi-threaded capable systems dramatically increasing the speed of securely copying files. They are currently looking for potential users with very high bandwidth to test the upper limits of the system."

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A likely story by sqldr · 2008-02-12 22:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Hi, I've invented a new way of downloading pron^H^H^H^H^H^Hcopying files across a network. If you have uber bandwidth, please contact me urgently!

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News just in! by j.a.mcguire · 2008-02-13 00:34 · Score: 5, Funny

Crowds were shocked to discover that multi-threaded software runs faster on a multi-core system, it was hard to contain the excitement over the discovery which could revolutionise software development!