# SCP Overview: Familiar, Simple, Insecure and Slow

DevFeed: [SCP Overview: Familiar, Simple, Insecure and Slow](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/scp-overview-familiar-simple-insecure-and-slow-29815.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/scp-familiar-simple-insecure-slow/>)

Author: info@goteleport.com (Andrew Lytvynov)

Published: 2020-06-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>), [OpenSSH](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openssh.md>), [rsync](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rsync.md>), [Unix](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/unix.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/encryption.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/encryption.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [openssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openssh.md>), [rsync](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rsync.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>), [unix](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/unix.md>)

## AI overview

This technical overview explains SCP as a widely available file-transfer tool that operates over SSH. It describes SCP's historical and nonstandard implementation, with SSH providing authentication and encryption, and notes that newer tools such as SFTP and rsync can outperform it.

## Source excerpt

SCP is a simple tool with a quirky implementation. It does an okay job at moving files around, but newer software like SFTP and Rsync outperforms it.