Re: [PLUG] Transfer REALLY large file(s) between Linux and OS X

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 13:22, William H. Magill wrote:
> On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 09:08 PM, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> > If only I was lucky enough to get some time on a gigabit pipe ;-)
> > Speaking of that, have you ever tried sftp? How have you found its 
> > speed
> > vs. scp vs. FTP?
> 
> One would assume that ANY encrypting protocol will be slower than its 
> non-encrypting version, simply by virtue of the extra work involved in 
> the encryption cycle. Those CPU cycles have to come from somewhere.

One would also then necessarily assume that some benchmarking was in
order to determine whether or not that overhead is negligable or not for
differing sizes of transferred data. That's what I was asking for, in
case that escaped your attention.

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