Subject: Re: automatic login
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/04/2002 13:35:29
[ On Thursday, July 4, 2002 at 18:32:58 (+0200), Wojciech Puchar wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: automatic login
>
> > > > depends on encryption method. Just don't use 3DES. AES is designed to be
> > > > fast even on small cpus, try that. (Or blowfish).
> > >
> > > i mean negotiation.
> >
> > Thats slower because of one or two additional round-trip times needed in
> > the sshv2 protocol.
> 
> half a minute on 386DX isn't because of round-trip times

Something's wrong with your 386DX -- are you sure you're not running
ssh(d) under a debugger or interpreter?  :-)

My SS-1+, with_out_ the FPU accellerator, can authenticate an SSH-v2
connection in less time than that!  I have a password prompt in 17
seconds and that's with an Xserver, xload, swisswatch, and a tail -f on
a log file all running at the same time.

IIRC even an i486sx/25MHz is faster than the SS-1+ when it comes to
doing SSH-v2, and I don't think it's much faster at it than an
i386DX/33MHz, and probably not faster than one at 66MHz.  How fast is
your 386DX?

(fyi, generating a key on the ss1+, i.e. 'ssh-keygen2 -P -b 1024 -t dsa'
takes about ten minutes with SSH-3.2.0, i.e. the SSH.COM version)

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