Re: Why SFTP performance sucks, and how to fix it

[Markus Friedl <markus%openbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:01:02PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> While I'm pointing out things that should be fixed in the spec, my other big
> gripe is the way the initial message is handled.  Currently the spec describes
> a rather messy mechanism where both sides start by shouting at each other and
> then engage in a complex dance to sort out what's what afterwards (the
> "guessing" stuff).  This leads to really messy implementations when one of the
> partners doesn't get the dance steps right.

I think that the 'guessing" stuff' is ugly, but it's not very hard
to skip the first kex packet in case the 'guess' is wrong.