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Old 03-20-2007
sftp vs scp

My transmit rates are waaay faster using scp over sftp....anyone know why scp is faster than sftp? I am using solaris 8 for my unix systems.

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Old 03-21-2007
reading this might help you in some way
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Old 03-21-2007
This is known and expected behavior :
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SFTP (Secure File Transfer Program) similar to FTP, but performs all operations over an encrypted SSH transport, thus gaining the features of public key encryption and compression.
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SCP (Secure CoPy) is a program to copy files between hosts on a network. It too uses SSH for authentication and data transfer, thus gaining the features of strong authentication and secure encrypted communications.
Unlike SCP, SFTP is complete remote filesystem protocol, that's why SCP is faster.
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