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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: It's time for those 2048-, 3072-, and 4096-bit keys?
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<<On 31 Mar 2002 01:49:54 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> said:

> Some systems (like the SparcStation 5 that serves DNS, DHCP and NTP
> requests from my home network) are too slow for the algorithms used by
> ssh2.

It's perfectly acceptable on our IPX.  The session takes a few seconds
to start, and the keys took a long time to generate, but once
authenticated there does not seem to be much difference to me.  (In
fact, `cat /etc/termcap' takes consistently twice as long using v1 as
v2.)

-GAWollman


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