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Posted March 4, 2022March 6, 2022Leave a commentPosted in Desktop, LinuxDesktop, Linux

SSH ControlMaster + RAMFS with Systemd

An often overlooked feature of the OpenSSH client is the ControlMaster feature. This feature allows multiple sessions to share a single TCP connection. This results in fast session startup and single sign on. There are many web pages which explain the feature in more detail which is not the point […]

Posted April 27, 2021February 10, 2024Leave a commentPosted in ServerServer

Benchmark SSH Ciphers

Choosing a specific cipher to use for SSH can have a large performance impact when transferring files using tools that use SSH as a transport. For testing, I decided to benchmark the impact of using scp with various ciphers locally on my laptop as well as a VPS from Linode. […]