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you may prefer sending the request via email or using an enrollment service on the
Web.
Select PKCS#10 request file location
In the text field (callout A in Figure 10 above), enter the path and the name of the file
where the certification request will be stored. You can also click the Browse button to
select. Click Next and continue installation.
Encryption Speed Diagnostics
8. SSH Sentinel runs diagnostics on the encryption algorithms as the last step of the
installation. You can bypass this step by clicking the Skip button on the dialog box.
These diagnostics reveal the speeds of the encryption algorithms compared to each
other. SSH Sentinel supports the following ciphers: Rijndael, Twofish, Blowfish, Cast,
3DES and DES.
Figure 11. Encryption Speed Diagnostics screen.
With the exception of DES, all of these ciphers can be considered secure for commercial
use.
The DES encryption algorithm is supported as a fallback option for interoperability
reasons. Rijndael, an encryption algorithm widely considered fast, secure and reliable,
is used as the default cipher by SSH Sentinel.
The diagnostics also reveal the relative speed of your computer running the algorithms.
There is a lot of contradictory information available on encryption speeds. The
diagnostics give you the chance to use your own judgment. The diagnostics measure
the encryption speed of your computer within the memory. The data packets are not
transmitted to the network. This is a common way to measure performance by