On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:37:06PM +0200, Tom Javen wrote:

> 105 seconds on 50MHz 486 , 1.5.2.
> Protocol version 1 was "fast" , 2 is slow.

what does 'openssl speed dsa' yield for results?

as far as I'm aware, DSA is used to sign the initial diffie-hellman
exchanges in ssh v2 and is usually the slowing factor for older
machines.  compilation flags for architectures can have significant
effects.

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