Re: Deprecating SCP

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On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 03:44:39PM +0100, Jakub Jelen wrote:
> Over the last years, there were several issues in the SCP protocol, which
> lead us into discussions if we can get rid of it in upstream [1]. Most of
> the voices there said that they use SCP mostly for simple ad-hoc copy and
> because sftp utility does not provide simple interface to copy one or couple
> of files back and forth and because of people are just used to write scp
> rather than sftp.
> 
> Some months ago, I wrote a patch [2] for scp to use SFTP internally (with
> possibility to change it back using -M scp) and ran it through some
> successful testing. The general feedback from upstream was also quite
> positive so I would like to hear also opinions from our users.

Has that testing included performance measurements, both on high bandwidth
low-latency transfers and low bandwidth high-latency transfers?
At least in the past SFTP used to be worse than SCP on high-latency
connections.

	Jakub
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