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2007-09-05 , 09:13
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Originally Posted by arman68 View Post
The problem with transfers via SSH is they are very slow, much slower than the write speed of the SDHC cards. Having a FTP server running on the tablet, would get rid of this limitation.
Yes, the slowdown is due to encryption, it will generate more cpu load on both endpoints. One way would be to use a lighter encryption, for example blowfish. I think removing encryption is not possible.
Yes FTP is more insecure, but only if the login credentials are intercepted, and on a private LAN, it is a very good solution for file transfers. I am actually surprised it does not come as part of the OS and nobody has compiled it.
No it's not only the login that can be intercepted, the complete traffic is unencrypted, so one can snoop your transfered image, files,..

I have this device since only a few days but I may have a look at porting an ftp server when I have time and when I have understood how to cross compile.