[ On Wednesday, May 4, 2005 at 22:54:50 (-0700), Aaron J. Grier wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: RE: VERY slow ssh logins to uVAX
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 03:48:48PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > As for speeding up SSH, the best way to do that is to not use horribly
> > inefficient floating point code to do your crypto -- and the easiest
> > way to avoid that inefficient code is to use security/ssh2.  This
> > makes SSH fast enough to use on a Sparc-2, so it should help on a lot
> > on VAX as well.
> 
> or recompile libssl so you get a performance gain for all programs
> linked with it.  (if you're using shared libraries...)

"recompile"?!?!?!?

How are you going to get code using algorithms that rely on
floating-point to go as fast as integer-only code just by recompiling?

Note that SSH-3 from ssh.com, aka pkgsrc/security/ssh2, doesn't use
libssl at all -- it's much faster than that!  :-)

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