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This reminds me of how you used to be able to disable the cypher on SSH and now you can't. I hate that.

You can use High Performance patches for ssh: http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh

Cipher - none.

Um... why? rsh still builds and works fine if that's what you want.

ssh with no cipher still requires authentication, and can stil use pubkey auth.

So "ssh with no cipher" means "people can snoop, but I can use proper auth". But rsh means "plaintext pw - or worse things if allowed".