From owner-freebsd-security Mon Apr 1 15:18: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0656D37B41A for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:17:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 46284 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Apr 2002 23:18:15 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 01:18:15 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's time for those 2048-, 3072-, and 4096-bit keys? Message-ID: <20020402011815.D45946@mail.webmonster.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Garrett Wollman , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5.0.2.1.1.20020326024955.02392830@popserver.sfu.ca> <20020326034234.Q10197-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20020326185714.F22539@mail.webmonster.de> <200204011848.g31ImGv55875@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZARJHfwaSJQLOEUz" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200204011848.g31ImGv55875@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@lcs.mit.edu on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 01:48:16PM -0500 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer X-Work-URL: http://www.ngenn.net/ X-Work-Address: nGENn GmbH, Schloss Kransberg, D-61250 Usingen-Kransberg, Germany X-Work-Phone: +49-6081-682-304 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --ZARJHfwaSJQLOEUz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Garrett Wollman(wollman@lcs.mit.edu)@2002.04.01 13:48:16 +0000: > < said: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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.) interresting. i observe a similar behaviour on my router (intel pentium 60, 4.4-stable 12/6/2001, ssh 2.0 20011202, protocol v2). generation of the server key takes ages (~3+ minutes)... regards, /k --=20 > The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour > to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores > the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them > into it in the first place. --Douglas Adams in Guardian, August 25, 1995= =20 KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.n= et/ GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 B= F46 My mail is GnuPG signed -- Unsigned ones are bogus -- http://www.gnupg.org/ Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --ZARJHfwaSJQLOEUz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8qOq3M0BPTilkv0YRAmbJAJ4nOWHt3rqugfy0MY3CrK1y8XHuEwCgle9i IpMRqSZPcE0W7jbPtPudqTg= =iXqN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZARJHfwaSJQLOEUz-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message