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Re: scp encryption

Subject: Re: scp encryption
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:16:27 +0100
Hello List,

As Far as i know there is no configuration option to turn encryption on/off in the openssh implementation, however the encryption cipher could be specified either with the -c cmd line option or in the ssh_config file.
Now about if it will or will never transfer anything unencrypted one could look to the ssh options FallBackToRsh and UseRsh, thought (correct me if i'm wrong) they would allow an unencrypted file transfer if the ssh service is not availeble on the other side and rsh is there.


Regards
Daoud.

Ian Gallagher wrote:
All SCP Sessions are encapsulated within an SSH session, so the files
being transferred are indeed encryptped, with whatever algorith your
client and host are configured to.  SCP Willnever, to my knowledge,
transfer anything unencrypted.


On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 07:20:17 -0400, Lissa Valletta <lissav@us.ibm.com> wrote:


Does scp always encrypt the data that is being copied or does one of the configuration options turn encryption on/off? If encryption is off by default, can it be overridden on the command?

Thanks!

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