On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:20 AM, kellyremo <kellyremo at zoho.com> wrote: > My question is: So Why Does the original OpenSSH has "limited statically > defined internal flow control buffers"?? It could be way faster, even 10x!! > Any opinions? > > Thank you! I think this thread would be very welcome on the comp.securty.ssh newsgroup, also available as a Google group. It's been dull over there, and as an old-time poster there, I think it would be a welcome discussion. More generally and for CentOS, this software has an *old* core, and its stability is critical. There are a lot of recent computational capabilities that weren't envisioned when it was written, and "Keep It Simple, Stupid" remains critical to this and other system utilities that have to run as trusted, critical services without updating every few weeks as the last round of changes introduces new or rediscovers old bugs. Like bind and sendmail and ftp, it doesn't need new features that often, and the software *must be* compatible with older clients and servers. If you want leading edge features, hop over to Fedora to test and refine it, then encourage its backport to RHEL and CentOS.