Re: Adding makemandb as build tool for man.db

[David Riley <david%the-rileys.net@localhost>]

On Oct 31, 2018, at 3:07 PM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> This would include the makemandb hint (which actually is not *that* painfull
> on most small / slow machines I have), and also point at something like
> this to be added to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
> 
> HostKeyAlgorithms       -ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01%openssh.com@localhost,-ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01%openssh.com@localhost,-ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01%openssh.com@localhost,-ssh-ed25519-cert-v01%openssh.com@localhost,-ssh-ed25519-cert-v01,-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,-ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,-ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,-ssh-ed25519
> 
> KexAlgorithms           -ecdh-sha2-nistp256,-ecdh-sha2-nistp384,-ecdh-sha2-nistp521,curve25519-sha256,-curve25519-sha256%libssh.org@localhost

Are the X25519 options really that slow? I'd expect them to be faster than medium-sized RSA keys, in general.  The NIST curves are less speed-friendly.

Or is it the SHA2 part that does it?


- Dave