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Check speed of ssh cipher(s) on your system
#!/bin/bash
# Based on: http://www.systutorials.com/5450/improving-sshscp-performance-by-choosing-ciphers/#comment-28725
#
# You should set up PublicKey authentication so that you don't have to type your
# password for every cipher tested.
set -o pipefail
ciphers="$@"
if [[ -n "$ciphers" ]]; then echo "User-supplied ciphers: $ciphers"; fi
if [[ -z "$ciphers" ]]; then
ciphers=$(egrep '^\s*Ciphers' /etc/ssh/sshd_config|sed 's/Ciphers//; s/,/ /')
if [[ -n "$ciphers" ]]; then echo "/etc/ssh/sshd_config allows these ciphers: $ciphers"; fi
fi
if [[ -z "$ciphers" ]]; then
ciphers=$(echo $(ssh -Q cipher))
if [[ -n "$ciphers" ]]; then echo "ssh -Q cipher reports these ciphers: $ciphers"; fi
fi
if [[ -z "$ciphers" ]]; then
read -rd '' ciphers <<EOF
3des-cbc aes128-cbc aes128-ctr aes128-gcm@openssh.com aes192-cbc aes192-ctr
aes256-cbc aes256-ctr aes256-gcm@openssh.com arcfour arcfour128 arcfour256
blowfish-cbc cast128-cbc chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se
EOF
echo "Default cipher test list: $ciphers"
fi
echo
echo "For each cipher, will transfer 1000 MB of zeros to/from localhost."
echo
tmp=$(mktemp)
for i in $ciphers
do
echo -n "$i: "
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000000 count=1000 2> /dev/null |
ssh -c $i -o Compression=no localhost "(time -p cat) > /dev/null" > $tmp 2>&1
if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then
grep real $tmp | awk '{print 1000 / $2" MB/s" }'
else
echo "failed, for why run: ssh -vc $i localhost"
fi
done
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joeharr4 commented May 1, 2018

I added a feature (name remote host) and a little doc, and fixed a bug (only one comma in list of ciphers converted to space)...
https://gist.github.com/joeharr4/c7599c52f9fad9e53f62e9c8ae690e6b
There's no pull requests in gist, so here's the fork you can pull back.
--jh--

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