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Date:      Tue, 2 Apr 2002 01:18:15 +0200
From:      "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: It's time for those 2048-, 3072-, and 4096-bit keys?
Message-ID:  <20020402011815.D45946@mail.webmonster.de>
In-Reply-To: <200204011848.g31ImGv55875@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@lcs.mit.edu on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 01:48:16PM -0500
References:  <5.0.2.1.1.20020326024955.02392830@popserver.sfu.ca> <20020326034234.Q10197-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20020326185714.F22539@mail.webmonster.de> <xzp8z89sgr1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200204011848.g31ImGv55875@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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Garrett Wollman(wollman@lcs.mit.edu)@2002.04.01 13:48:16 +0000:
> <<On 31 Mar 2002 01:49:54 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> 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

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