On Sunday 06 June 2004 22:58, Sean Davis wrote:

> The problem isn't ssh2. the problem is the OpenSSL guts used by
> OpenSSH's ssh2. OpenSSH sshd (using ssh version 2) was slow logging in
> on my Ultra 5 - I installed pkgsrc/net/ssh2-nox11, killed openssh
> sshd, put sshd2 in its place, and it's almost as fast as rsh now to
> login. And this is with the openssh ssh client - just the ssh.com
> server.

Note that the observed speed-up could well be attributed to some
extent to sshd2 not supporting diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,
which might cause a rather large modulus to be, well, forced upon
you otherwise.


- Klaus