[ale] sshd resource intensive??

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Drag0n wrote:
> Considering that the sender has to encrypt the data on the fly and the
> receiver has to decrypt it as it receives it, processor speed more than
> bandwidth determines throughput on local networks. This is to be
> expected unless you have dedicated ssl accelerators in each machine that
> ssh has been configured to use.

So considering this issue, anyone have better suggestions for securing a 
wifi connection.  vtunnel or openvpn perhaps?  I would expect them all 
to have similar overhead issues.  As I recall, vtunnel is ssh based 
anyway.  Maybe some tweeks to ssh could produce faster processing?

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