On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 01:35:29PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> 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.

That's interesting.  I and several other people have benchmarked our
-mv8 -mcpu=supersparc optimized openssl builds at 20-30 seconds for
110MHz SS5's.

I just did a test to a Linux workstation and it took 1 minute before I
was asked for the password.  

Going from Linux to the other server, a 110Mhz SS5, takes about 30 seconds.

If you can get there in 17 seconds on an SS-1+, a lot of people would
love to know how.

> (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)

I get that in a minute on my system.  I obviously have a lot more
horsepower.  On a workstation I have, it's under 3 seconds.

I have the default ssh configuration with the exception of using the
blowfish cipher, 512-bit keys, and an 8 hour cycle time for the keys.


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