That's slower than my Sparc 2 by a good by (and across country!).
3 seconds to a prompt for password, 3-4 seconds to get in after <RETURN>

While I'm aware that RISC kicks Pentium's butt, my 30MHz box should
not be faster than your fancy new rich kid one :)

Quoting Gerald C. Simmons (simmons@darykon.cet.com):
> Just a reality check.
> 
> I'm using the Public/Private DSA key authentication for SSH on a 233MHz Pentium
> box (128MB RAM) running NetBSD 1.5.2. When I execute ssh <machine>, or slogin <machine>,
> it takes about 10 seconds for my NetBSD box to repsond.
> 
> I just assuming it's taking this long to process the 128-bit encryption.
> However, I'm running Suse Linux on a 433MHz PII box, and it responds almost
> instantly.