Linda Walsh wrote:  > Sounds like it is unlikely to provide an
"easy" way to remove > the data encryption from the equation.
Why do you say that?  > I'm not clear if the HPN-SSH "patch" is
a patch over Ossh or > a different, but depending on how much
change HPN-SSH adds, I might > be benchmarking something that is
unrepresentative of Ossh.  Its a patch against OpenSSH with
support for all of the recent releases. It's primary goal is to
open up the receive window limitation that imposed by the
multiplexing. If the BDP of your path is greater than 64k in the
case of 4.6 (or less) or around 1.25MB for 4.7 it can increase
your throughput assuming the network and end hosts are well
tuned.  This performance increase is often large enough to make
CPU overhead the limiting bottleneck - which is why we
incorporated the NONE cipher  >> What are you typically seeing
for your transfer rates? What cipher/MAC >> combination are you
using and what version of OpenSSL? Also, what >> version of
OpenSSH?  > ---- > Most are und